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Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by swah » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:56 PM UTC

solutionyogi wrote: post #37

Why are they not dogfooding? If they will use Github to develop Gogs, the potential audience may think why they should not use Github itself. I am not trying to put them down, it's very difficult to dog food when your product is in its early state but their page suggests that they already support Issue Tracking. I think it is in a state where they can use Gogs to develop Gogs. This will ensure that they work on those…

Tried the product again (w/ no repos..) and it looks very nice. Dogfooding, drop the "written in Go" like technomancy says, big-ass buttons "Import from my Github" and "Import from existing repository".

This should be more popular!

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by icefox » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:56 PM UTC

klaruz wrote: post #31

Why do I rarely see Gitblit talked about as an open source alternative to GitHub? It does a lot: http://gitblit.com/features.html , including a well thought out ticket workflow: http://gitblit.com/tickets_overview.html It's also very easy to install, since it only needs a JVM. I started using it after getting frustrated with Gitlab's install process on RHEL (a year ago), and I used Gitolite before that. Gitblit has b…

I see a lovely list of all sorts of features, but then I get to limitations: "Built-in access controls are not branch-based, they are repository-based."

That falls under one of the three things that the Git solution must have or else I will just pass and find something else. http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2014/10/so-you-want-to-bu...

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by icefox » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #32

Still looking for a good locally deployable github alternative that has decent issue tracker (i.e. youtrack/jira/tfs level of customization and planinng support) AND pull request support. Are there any? Is this it?

Why not just install a separate product that is dedicated to being a really good issue tracker?

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by zoomix » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

That's weird. I'd have thought that "difficult to manage/install/update" is a used-to-be problem now that docker's around..

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by corobo » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

EduardoBautista wrote: post #20

one-more-minute wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitLab could definitely have been a bit more original with the name, but actually the UI is very different from GitHub. Which has its pros and cons, of course.

How original can you be if you want your product name to be explicit that it works with git?

and as short as possible in the domain name sense

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by fab13n » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 3:08 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #10

I use Gogs on my Synology NAS for personal use and I love it. Mostly because it's so easy to setup and deploy - cross-compiling the binary for ARM was simple, after that it was just a matter of SCPing it to the NAS itself. It's not as feature rich as other options, but it does it's job well.

I would be interested by a more in-depth how-to too.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by solutionyogi » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

duiker101 wrote: post #46

maratd wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If they will use Github to develop Gogs, the potential audience may think why should I not use Github itself? Because you have to pay for private repos and pay even more to host your own deployment?

also, they might be using github because it's already open to the wide audience that might want to contribute.

Their feature comparison shows that they do support Issue Tracking.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

izolate wrote: post #13

We moved to Gogs. GitLab was too slow, and started giving us random 500 errors (fatal bug). Overall, it's been more enjoyable than Gitlab. Things I don't like: * No pull requests / issues * No deploy keys * It's a full on GitHub replacement in the sense that anybody can sign up to your Gogs instance and use it. Who's using it that way? Would be much better if it were built for one organization with a way to group rep…

GitLab CEO here, I'm sorry to hear you experienced 500 errors. That shouldn't happen. Did you use our Omnibus packages? https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ Anyway, if you want to look into it email me at sytse@gitlab.com

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by fab13n » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 3:18 PM UTC

ctvo wrote: post #21

What's the value of hosting your own Github alternative as an organization / company? Do people have on-premise requirements and don't want to pay for Github enterprise? I assume most start-ups don't and 25 USD for 10 private repositories isn't going to break the bank.

If you have some commercial secrets which you want to keep from competitors who're on friendly terms with US politicians, you often feel uncomfortable having your data hosted under US jurisdiction.

In sensitive domains such as aeronautics, the question of what's hosted where is considered in every collaboration contract, and US or China hosting are typically excluded.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 3:27 PM UTC

Hi, GitLab CEO here. Installing GitLab should take only 2 minutes with the Omnibus packages available on https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/

Upgrading GitLab is as simple as:

    sudo gitlab-ctl stop unicorn
    sudo gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq
    sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create
    sudo dpkg -i gitlab_x.x.x-omnibus.xxx.deb
    sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

And we're working very hard to make sure this is a flawless, uneventful & boring process for 100% of the users https://twitter.com/PentiumBug/status/569930640725946368 We're also working on a package server so you can just use apt-get to upgrade.