httpx maintainer here. I chose gitlab at a time where I used the community edition inside the company I worked in. We had our onprem infrastructure and needed s

httpx maintainer here. I chose gitlab at a time where I used the community edition inside the company I worked in. We had our onprem infrastructure and needed some private git management dashboard a-la github, and gitlab (even requiring gobs of RAM) saved us. I also decided to close-source this project initially, as I didn't know where it was headed, and github didn't provide private repositories at the time. It also provided CI out-of-the-box, whereas if I had chosen github, I'd have to integrate it with travis, or circle-ci, or yet another third-party that required me to update my configs every 6 months. I can tell you only this feature makes the decision totally worth it. Also, gitlab has way more dev-friendly features than github, which has been recently only copying what gitlab already does. I do mirror the project to github, in case anyone from there wants to contribute, so I'm not that narrowminded. However, I do prefer gitlab, and it's where I do most of my personal work nowadays.