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I've generally moved from Gitlab to Gitea + Drone. Gitlab has switched into the "squeeze money from customers phase". It is time to leave.

number6 4y ago
I selfhost gitlab for years now. My preffered road.
- bdcravens 4y ago
  If you need the features in the Premium offering, you still have to purchase licensing.
- dijit 4y ago
  There's only a couple of missing features (for me, anyway) if you self host compared to the premium licensed self-hosted version (which, insanely, is the same price as the SaaS product!): * CODEOWNERS EDIT: Not true anymore! -- ~ * Protected branches (IE; preventing people committing to master/main) ~ * Approval Rules in merge requests * Merge trains (auto-merging if another merge request depends on another). * Viewing Jira issues in Gitlab
  - mantas 4y ago
    Protected branches is no longer premium-only.
  - number6 4y ago
    Merge trains would be nice, protected branches definitely exist. Never missed the other features tbh
  - matthew-wegner 4y ago
    I did a quick Slack bot that messages a channel with open merge requests every morning. I really wanted to show the approval status, too, just as a reminder for someone to go "oh, that's approved, I should go merge". But the entire approval-related API fields are deliberately removed on free tier, not just the web UI "require approval" functionality. I found this to be pretty heavy handed, especially for a self-hosted instance.
  - bink 4y ago
    Not trying to excuse the behavior but from what I've heard talking to other SaaS vendors... self-hosted is often priced similarly to the SaaS offering because even though the hosting costs are paid by the customer the support costs are often much higher.
    - sScTE9qEMCxEk34 4y ago
      I'm sure the hosting costs are a rounding error for Gitlab for the vast majority of ("cloud") customers. Knowing how big some repos are, storage is probably their biggest cost... and, coincidentally enough, they charge for that a la carte!
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tiffanyh 4y ago
How does Gitea compare? Likes/dislikes? Also, did you ever look into Gogs?
- junon 4y ago
  Gitea had issues a few years back with mirroring many repositories at once, deadlocking and remaining that way until it was reinstalled, essentially. It led me to believe it's not the most stable software but I would imagine it's improved quite a lot over the years. It is extremely simple and easy to set up, though, and works well as both a private as well as a publicly hosted instance out of the box, depending on how you configure it.
e12e 4y ago
> I've generally moved from Gitlab to Gitea + Drone. Do you use actions with Gitea? If so - how does drone fit in with/replace nektos/act?
- jolheiser 4y ago
  Actions are mostly still in beta with 1.19, disabled by default. In general, one big thing that's been mentioned is that our actions don't currently support things like services (among other things), so while they are good for a quick CI, they aren't quite ready to replace a full CI system yet.
  - e12e 4y ago
    Thank you - just set up some simple tests leveraging postgres - so I guess we can't jump to gitea w/actions just yet. Still, I'd never had guessed the feature-gap was this close. Exciting!

number6 4y ago

I selfhost gitlab for years now. My preffered road.

bdcravens 4y ago
If you need the features in the Premium offering, you still have to purchase licensing.
dijit 4y ago
There's only a couple of missing features (for me, anyway) if you self host compared to the premium licensed self-hosted version (which, insanely, is the same price as the SaaS product!): * CODEOWNERS EDIT: Not true anymore! -- ~ * Protected branches (IE; preventing people committing to master/main) ~ * Approval Rules in merge requests * Merge trains (auto-merging if another merge request depends on another). * Viewing Jira issues in Gitlab
- mantas 4y ago
  Protected branches is no longer premium-only.
- number6 4y ago
  Merge trains would be nice, protected branches definitely exist. Never missed the other features tbh
- matthew-wegner 4y ago
  I did a quick Slack bot that messages a channel with open merge requests every morning. I really wanted to show the approval status, too, just as a reminder for someone to go "oh, that's approved, I should go merge". But the entire approval-related API fields are deliberately removed on free tier, not just the web UI "require approval" functionality. I found this to be pretty heavy handed, especially for a self-hosted instance.
- bink 4y ago
  Not trying to excuse the behavior but from what I've heard talking to other SaaS vendors... self-hosted is often priced similarly to the SaaS offering because even though the hosting costs are paid by the customer the support costs are often much higher.
  - sScTE9qEMCxEk34 4y ago
    I'm sure the hosting costs are a rounding error for Gitlab for the vast majority of ("cloud") customers. Knowing how big some repos are, storage is probably their biggest cost... and, coincidentally enough, they charge for that a la carte!

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tiffanyh 4y ago

How does Gitea compare? Likes/dislikes? Also, did you ever look into Gogs?

junon 4y ago
Gitea had issues a few years back with mirroring many repositories at once, deadlocking and remaining that way until it was reinstalled, essentially. It led me to believe it's not the most stable software but I would imagine it's improved quite a lot over the years. It is extremely simple and easy to set up, though, and works well as both a private as well as a publicly hosted instance out of the box, depending on how you configure it.

e12e 4y ago

> I've generally moved from Gitlab to Gitea + Drone. Do you use actions with Gitea? If so - how does drone fit in with/replace nektos/act?

jolheiser 4y ago
Actions are mostly still in beta with 1.19, disabled by default. In general, one big thing that's been mentioned is that our actions don't currently support things like services (among other things), so while they are good for a quick CI, they aren't quite ready to replace a full CI system yet.
- e12e 4y ago
  Thank you - just set up some simple tests leveraging postgres - so I guess we can't jump to gitea w/actions just yet. Still, I'd never had guessed the feature-gap was this close. Exciting!