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Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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txu wrote: post #83
sytse wrote: post #70

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 & borin…

Gogs looks quite polished and it might attract people who needs to setup a new server. But once you setup your workflow you don't want to worry about it for a while because you want to focus on the actual work. Switching the tool is of the least concern unless the old one broke. I've been using Gitlab to manage all my personal projects and I am grateful of how many features and constant improvements I get for free. L…

Hi txu, glad to hear your enjoy GitLab. An GitLab certainly scales for larger teams. We have a customer installation with more than 10k developers and there are more than 30k active users on GitLab.com

And we're spending more time to polish the UX to make sure it looks good.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse »

tomjen3 wrote: post #76
sytse wrote: post #70

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 & borin…

Why not just do apt-get update like (substantially) everybody else?

We're working on having a packagage server. We wanted to have something for multiple platforms that also supports our Enterprise Edition. We've decided to go with PackageCloud.io on-premises and it will be up in a month. Currently we're doing 1TB+ of package downloads per week.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by fsiefken »

trwired wrote: post #77
technomancy wrote: post #48

Maybe it isn't fair, but every time I see "...written in X" tacked on the end of the tag line, I assume it's a very immature product. If the implementation language is that high on the list of things potential users might be interested in, it's usually a sign that they've got a ways to go.

As a potential user I find the information on the technology used to be pretty helpful, actually. It sets up my hopes for an app that is lighter on the resources than the Ruby on Rails based GitLab, with maybe easier installation process as well.

Install of gitlab is pretty easy with the Omnibus install method and manual install is certainly doable. It runs ok here with 1G RAM on an Atom processor.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by nine_k »

technomancy wrote: post #48

Maybe it isn't fair, but every time I see "...written in X" tacked on the end of the tag line, I assume it's a very immature product. If the implementation language is that high on the list of things potential users might be interested in, it's usually a sign that they've got a ways to go.

The implementation language has a lot of implications.

* I'm extra wary installing anything written in e.g. PHP: it has a higher chance to be remotely crackable.

* I plan for more CPU and expect higher latency if something I need to run is written in e.g. Ruby.

* I plan for extra RAM and JVM tweaking for things written in Java (or Scala).

* I expect extra setup hassles for things written using Node.

Upsides are easy to see, too.

* I expect that it will be especially easy to read and alter code of something written in especially readable languages like Python, or Ruby, or Go.

* I expect that it will be dead easy to deploy something written in something that gives you a static binary, like Go or C or Haskell.

* I expect that things written in a compiled language like Java, or C, or C#, or Go, etc will run pretty fast.

* I expect that a program written in C has good chances to be optimized for low/efficient resource usage and thus could run well on a low-power device.

* I expect that something written in an elaborate statically-typed language like OCaml or Haskell is not prone to crashing with null-pointer exceptions or memory corruption.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse »

jlas wrote: post #75
sytse wrote: post #70

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 & borin…

Looks like you need a `gitlab-ctl upgrade` command

Good idea, I made an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/471

I also noticed that the current instructions were not very copy-paste friendly and made some small changes to remedy that https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/commit/51d51fe1...

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse »

DouweM wrote: post #89
bau5 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike GitLab, gogs can probably run well on a $5 DigitalOcean instance.

Digital Ocean recommends running GitLab on their $10/month instance, so while I haven't tried it, the $5 one is probably still up to the task: https://www.digitalocean.com/features/one-click-apps/gitlab/ (Full disclosure: I'm a developer at GitLab B.V.)

If you're going for the 512MB please read the requirements https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst... (make sure to set up swap and use ssh access)

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse »

lsllc wrote: post #78
akfanta wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a bit slower"? My experience with Gitlab was terrible. It's unbearably slow especially when I try to create a relatively large pull request for review. The pull request comparison tool is not very smart either. Often times I have a big chunk of false change detection. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I just don't see any advantage of it over the like of Github and Bitbucket.

Gitlab has gotten much faster in recent releases.

Indeed, and false range detection should also not be a problem anymore.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse »

kirushik wrote: post #30
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.

Ability to add together.js button into the GitLab's Merge Request template. This makes the coolest tool for remote code review I've ever used.

Sounds cool! Consider contributing it back to GitLab as a project service. Make sure to mention this comment in your merge request.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by sytse »

rpcope1 wrote: post #49
Rafert wrote: post #8

What experiences do people have with http://phabricator.org/ ? It's not a GitHub clone but it does seem very complete, possibly replacing Jira and Stash if you're into the Atlassian ecosystem.

I like it much much better than Gitlab, and find it's real good alternative for Atlassian's stack. I've been nothing but pleased with it and I've deployed it a number of places now. The biggest thing is that everything is integrated (i.e. it plays well together, unlike trying to graft Redmine + Gitlab or other combos), and that installation and upgrade is comparatively painless. The sense of humor is also an added pl…

What integration are you missing from GitLab? It has issue tracking, version control, code reviews, wiki's, CI and CD out of the box. Maybe we can use a little more of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CHANGELO...
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