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For people curious about all the GitHub links: we are probably switching to gitlab soon. This has been in discussion since October and recent events with Micros

For people curious about all the GitHub links: we are probably switching to gitlab soon. This has been in discussion since October and recent events with Microsoft tipped the scales for us. Besides the issue of trusting Microsoft or not, GitHub does not have a convenient way to backup the issues and pull request descriptions and all the comments.

the-dude 8y ago
Not paranoid at all.
- ollieparanoid 8y ago
  Username checks out ;) But seriously: I can only imagine how many hours each individual has put in writing all these messages on github. Some pull requests and issues read like full blog posts, and oftentimes we reference them in the source code. So it would really be a shame if they got lost. People are giving so much of their data into third party hands these days without ever thinking about it. We want to be in control of our own data, and while hosting a gitlab instance by ourselves is not feasible for us at this point, having a good backup strategy would already be a big improvement in that direction.
  - the-dude 8y ago
    Is GH GDPR compliant?
pabs3 8y ago
There is github-backup but it doesn't do restores: https://github-backup.branchable.com/ https://github-backup.branchable.com/
- ollieparanoid 8y ago
  We looked into that as well, and besides missing restore functionality, the problem is that it needs to access GitHub's rate limited API to crawl through one issue after another. In gitlab there is one API call to prepare a full backup, and another one to download it. At least that's what the docs say, we have not tried it out yet. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/project_import_export.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/project_import_export.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/import_export.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/import_expo...
JetSpiegel 8y ago
I'm almost sure the Gitlab GitHub import feature does that.

the-dude 8y ago

Not paranoid at all.

ollieparanoid 8y ago
Username checks out ;) But seriously: I can only imagine how many hours each individual has put in writing all these messages on github. Some pull requests and issues read like full blog posts, and oftentimes we reference them in the source code. So it would really be a shame if they got lost. People are giving so much of their data into third party hands these days without ever thinking about it. We want to be in control of our own data, and while hosting a gitlab instance by ourselves is not feasible for us at this point, having a good backup strategy would already be a big improvement in that direction.
- the-dude 8y ago
  Is GH GDPR compliant?

pabs3 8y ago

There is github-backup but it doesn't do restores: https://github-backup.branchable.com/ https://github-backup.branchable.com/

ollieparanoid 8y ago
We looked into that as well, and besides missing restore functionality, the problem is that it needs to access GitHub's rate limited API to crawl through one issue after another. In gitlab there is one API call to prepare a full backup, and another one to download it. At least that's what the docs say, we have not tried it out yet. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/project_import_export.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/project_import_export.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/import_export.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/import_expo...

JetSpiegel 8y ago

I'm almost sure the Gitlab GitHub import feature does that.