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> Currently there is no great GitHub alternative GitLab is decent, with an open source core that can be installed on premise — I introduced it for a former emp

> Currently there is no great GitHub alternative GitLab is decent, with an open source core that can be installed on premise — I introduced it for a former employer and they are still very happy with it. https://gitlab.com/ https://gitlab.com/ All isn't perfect and I'm still on GitHub due to the network effects, but you do have alternatives.

btasovac 8y ago
Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here! I'm happy to hear that your former employer is happy with our product! If you have more feedback on the things that could be better, we would love to hear more!
- michaelcampbell 8y ago
  I'm using it for a couple personal projects and am very happy with it so far, for what that's worth.
lucb1e 8y ago
It's not about an alternative -- heck, `apt install git` is the way everyone is already self-hosting git (you can push and pull from anything like Dropbox/Drive/OneDrive to an NFS mount). It's about the community that is GitHub. Since the news broke I've been hosting a Gitea instance and while that works fine, I cannot go a day without using Github for things like pulling other people's code, creating issues, etc.
- bad_user 8y ago
  There are some prominent projects on GitLab already. Also once the apple gets rotten, people will move. Remember SourceForge? Seriously it only takes a bunch of high profile projects and people to drive a migration. In other words Microsoft has to play nice.
  - lucb1e 8y ago
    Microsoft is pushing some invasive stuff in Windows 10 but they totally get away with it. I don't believe that the only way to stay in business is to play nice, at least not in the short term that managers can oversee and will base their decisions on. SourceForge is from before my time. When Github was still small, I was still being brainwashed by school's free Windows and discount Office licenses and school educating us in using Microsoft Office. From my current point of view, though, SourceForge was never as big as Github is now. Almost every development company pulls code from Github, either in an automated fashion to pull in updates, or casually as they need random things that are published there. I don't think that was ever the case with SF.

btasovac 8y ago

Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here! I'm happy to hear that your former employer is happy with our product! If you have more feedback on the things that could be better, we would love to hear more!

michaelcampbell 8y ago
I'm using it for a couple personal projects and am very happy with it so far, for what that's worth.

lucb1e 8y ago

It's not about an alternative -- heck, `apt install git` is the way everyone is already self-hosting git (you can push and pull from anything like Dropbox/Drive/OneDrive to an NFS mount). It's about the community that is GitHub. Since the news broke I've been hosting a Gitea instance and while that works fine, I cannot go a day without using Github for things like pulling other people's code, creating issues, etc.

bad_user 8y ago
There are some prominent projects on GitLab already. Also once the apple gets rotten, people will move. Remember SourceForge? Seriously it only takes a bunch of high profile projects and people to drive a migration. In other words Microsoft has to play nice.
- lucb1e 8y ago
  Microsoft is pushing some invasive stuff in Windows 10 but they totally get away with it. I don't believe that the only way to stay in business is to play nice, at least not in the short term that managers can oversee and will base their decisions on. SourceForge is from before my time. When Github was still small, I was still being brainwashed by school's free Windows and discount Office licenses and school educating us in using Microsoft Office. From my current point of view, though, SourceForge was never as big as Github is now. Almost every development company pulls code from Github, either in an automated fashion to pull in updates, or casually as they need random things that are published there. I don't think that was ever the case with SF.