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Rumors are that Gitlab is for sale, so the move might make sense in that regard.
by njtransit 2y ago
Rumors are that Gitlab is for sale, so the move might make sense in that regard.
- nyclounge 2y agoTime to jump ship to codeberg/gitea? What are non commercial git repos now days?
- freedomben 2y agoI'll wait to jump ship until I see who buys them. It could end up being a huge positive for a gitlab. I have been very disappointed in their strategy the past few years and I think they squandered an enormous opportunity and amount of Goodwill with developers. If they got bought by somebody good, then I think it could end up being a massive positive.
- Gigachad 2y agoMicrosoft buying GitHub seemed to be a huge benefit to GitHub at least.
- Normal_gaussian 2y agoGitHub was in an odd position; HR had politically captured every department. A buyout by someone so big was pretty much the only way to do it.
- marcus_holmes 2y agoyeah, the product is great, but the pricing is a mess. If whoever buys it sorts that out it could be a win.
- rurp 2y agoI used Gitlab at a previous job maybe four years ago and really liked the UI. Switching to Github at the new gig felt like a huge step backwards. That said, the product and business news I have seen regarding Gitlab since then has almost all been negative. Hopefully they are able to turn things around because at one point I really hoped they would overtake Github and thought it might happen.
- thinkyfish 2y agoForgejo jumps to mind.
- ksp-atlas 2y agoGitea became for profit, there's still a non profit fork called Forgejo which has become fairly popular
- noirscape 2y agoTo elaborate a bit more; first things first - Gitea is still MIT and open source. Not open core, full open source. The main reason for Forgejo is moreso that Gitea as a project was taken over by a company instead of being run as a non-profit. Some of the dev team felt uncomfortable with that and forked it. Personally I haven't seen much reason to switch from Gitea to Forgejo - this is the sort of ideological issue that I'd rather kick the can down the road on until Gitea Ltd goes bad (and in an assumption of good faith, I'll assume that it won't.) It's not that difficult to move git repositories around after all.
- a2128 2y agoThe ideological difference between the two projects really shows on their landing pages. Forgejo has a cute fox drawn by a real artist whose name is credited in the website's footer; Gitea has AI-generated images of a robot in the clouds or in a skyline (it becomes really obvious when you look close)
- Matumio 2y agoIndeed. And the cute fox almost doesn't need the credits. When you recognize David Revoy's style on a project page, you know the project is probably a community-driven effort, and is worth checking out if you value that.
- nyclounge 2y agoThank you for sharing this. It make a huge difference for when we are choosing!
- joachimma 2y agoDoes anyone know why gitea is developed on GitHub?
- teraflop 2y agoSee this issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 For years, "self-hosting" Gitea wasn't done because it was missing a bunch of useful collaboration features. Now, it looks like that gap has been closed. All of the specific features mentioned in that issue seem to have been fixed, and the big remaining task is figuring out below to actually migrate all the existing data out of GitHub -- which doesn't seem to be super high on the priority list.
- adastra22 2y agoWho would buy it?
- codegeek 2y agoMicrosoft :)
- jmclnx 2y agoMaybe IBM since I think Gnome and a few other large projects moved there. Plus since AI is all the rage, I can see someone picking it up. The main question is probably the price.
- freedomben 2y agoI was thinking about that as well, given that it seems it would fit in well with the red hat portfolio. They don't as far as I know. Have a good answer for a gitforge, and the phenomenal CI CD offering that gitlab has would be very marketable to Red hat customers. I would be excited if IBM acquired them and put them under the red hat umbrella, because as history has shown, it may mean that gitlab ends up becoming much more open. They may open up the entire product instead of doing the open core model.
- throwaway2037 2y agoPlease correct me if wrong. Red Hat has OpenShift Cloud, which I think has Git repo hosting, including CI/CD.
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- jmclnx 2y agoYes, I heard this rumor right after I moved from github to gitlab. Well if I have to go elsewhere at least gitlab will archive my abandoned free account for me :) FWIW, I found them easier to deal wit than github, so will hang tight to see how this plays out.
- addicted 2y agoI’m curious why you would move to Gitlab. Nothing they’ve done since they were created has ever moved them in a more open source friendly direction, and they’ve broken a ton of promises both implicit and explicit along the way. GitHub OTOH has only become more open source friendly (minus the AI stuff, but I suspect Gitlab is no better on that front).
- gbear605 2y agoIn my experience, Gitlab is a lot more stable than Github. My last job was on Github, and we had an outage a couple times a month at least. We even had a Slack emote for it! My current job is on Gitlab, and we haven’t had a single outage in the year that we’ve been on them.
- elcritch 2y agoSecond that. My job before last moved to a locally hosted enterprise Github instance, which promptly ate itself. The specs required to run it were also impressive, something like 64gb minimum to boot but more was strongly recommended.
- not_your_vase 2y agoHaha, I keep getting burned by GitHub outages even as a private contributor with my personal account... speaking of which, I expect one outage soon, this week so far it has been available always when I needed it...
- jraph 2y agoWhat are you referring to? Gitlab is open core, (not great but better than nothing) while github is zero open source.
- FooBarWidget 2y agoHow does this make sense? Gitlab is a public company, it's already for sale to anyone.
- sgt 2y agoA lot more goes into selling a company or a controlling share. All the ducks in a row and the company really needs to prove that it is worth X price.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoGitlab is a publicly traded company, it’s literally been for sale to anyone who wants it for 3 years. If you made an offer to buy it for ~$15B right now, the board would basically have to approve the sale.