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Opensource isnt such a problem the software should be great, i fail to see how Gitlab is better than Github.
by pankajdoharey 5y ago
Opensource isnt such a problem the software should be great, i fail to see how Gitlab is better than Github.
- dragontamer 5y agoGithub is a website while Gitlab is software.
- bityard 5y agoGitlab is both actually
- robinhood 5y agoGithub is actually a web application, like Gitlab.
- dragontamer 5y agoCan you download Github and host a private Github instance? No? Then its web-only. Like Google Docs is web-only, while MS Word is offline. Gitlab is hostable software. You can buy and host Gitlab on your own servers, in private. That makes it a fundamentally different market than Github.
- Kranar 5y ago>Can you download Github and host a private Github instance? Yes, that's what Github Enterprise Server is: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.2/admin/overview/system-overview https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.2/admin/overv...
- upheaval7276 5y agoGitlab always felt like a set of checkboxes to appease non-technical managers. In my experience, most features are half-baked. Even the code review/MR experience is frustrating compared to GitHub. The UX for security scans is _really_ rough.
- nitrogen 5y agoGitLab's integrated CI came before GitHub actions and was super helpful.
- chrisweekly 5y agoGitLab CI is world-class.
- 210Donegal 5y agoWhat about the UX for security scans is rough?
- Aeolun 5y agoIt feels like at first, Gitlab was trying to build a few great features, which is how we got CI, but then they started instead to focus on breadth, and that’s how we got everything else that’s now in the product.
- rock_hard 5y agoFully agree! We tried it for a year and didn’t like it GitHub has less features but the UX around PRs is 10x better IMO
- Mikeb85 5y agoGitHub is Microsoft now. Not going to lie, simply keeping my code away from MS is a good enough use case.
- robinhood 5y agoMicrosoft is the largest open source organization in the world today. What else do they need to do to gain some kind of trust? I love what they do with Github since the acquisition. VSCode is amazing. They've open source most of their programming language. Github is free for open source org and there are no limits to the CI usage. Trusting Gitlab more than Github is naive at this point. They are in the position of needing to generate as much revenue as possible to satisfy their investors. Github is not in this position anymore.
- ekianjo 5y agoLargest open source organization based on what metrics ? They havent open up any of their bread making products.
- atonse 5y agoOpen sourcing .NET under an Apache license was a great move. And so was making it cross platform. I surely missed C# my first few years without it. Open Source isn’t some weird religion where it only matters if you open source the stuff that makes you money.
- harry8 5y agoHow does that work with their patent threats? Eg against mono, gnome, tomtom(?) for using a Free implementation of the fat filesystem? I haven't been following it but is all that renounced so it can't possibly come back or be applied to the next people? My first reaction is "How do we know that releasing the code isn't just bait?"
- ekianjo 5y ago> Open Source isn’t some weird religion where it only matters if you open source the stuff that makes you money. Yet they love Open Source so much they use patents aggressively to extract resources from the Android project. Don't believe all the BS made by the Microsoft PR.
- shaan7 5y agoI work for two clients (one of them is a huge German company) as a consultant who are both using GitLab simply because they can host it on their infrastructure. Makes it easier for them to satisfy internal security policies I guess.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoWhat else would they use?
- throwaway2037 5y agoAtlassian Bitbucket for Git and TeamCity or Jenkins for build + deploy.