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> Developers said they would leave GitHub when Microsoft acquired it. Did GitLab get a valuation boost? Maybe a minor one at most. "Developers" may not have mo
by bsder 4y ago
> Developers said they would leave GitHub when Microsoft acquired it. Did GitLab get a valuation boost? Maybe a minor one at most.
"Developers" may not have moved in much percentage-wise. However, I have noticed quite a few projects moved to GitLab.
Projects being on Gitlab forces developers to exist in both places which cracks the "default convenience" monopoly of Github.
- oefrha 4y agoI’m a pretty active open source developer, having a couple reasonably popular projects myself and been a team member of an extremely success one. I’d say maybe one in one hundred projects I’m interested in is on gitlab.com. Last year they stopped allowing anonymous search on hosted issue trackers, and it took me the better part of a year to even notice (I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252501 when I did notice), and I only noticed it on a project that’s developed on GitHub but uses gitlab.com for issue tracking, a choice made back when GitHub’s issue tracker was a lot more primitive. That is to say, I had to search a gitlab.com issue tracker once in a whole year, while I search plenty of open source issue trackers all the time. That’s how irreverent gitlab.com for open source is at least to me. Disclosure: I host a GitLab instance at home.