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If gitlab keeps up with this hostility even towards paying customer a fork will be incoming sooner than later.

mal10c 3y ago
There's always Gitea [1]. I've been using that for personal projects and it's perfect. [1]: https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/comparison https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/comparison
mschuster91 3y ago
You can always run a GitLab CE instance on your own, takes less than five minutes to set up at any Docker hosting provider you want.
- andrewstuart2 3y ago
  I've been hosting my own GitLab for nearly 10 years, and it's been amazing and has grown with my environment really, really well.
- LeSaucy 3y ago
  These are limited to 10 active users are they not?
  - mschuster91 3y ago
    No. They're fine for at least 300 users (which is the case in an instance I run) and you can connect it with Keycloak and LDAP for SSO. You don't get SSO user-group mappings in CE, but heh, if you use Terraform that is easy enough to manage manually even at that size.
  - TheRealPomax 3y ago
    There are no limits when self-hosting.
    - __jonas 3y ago
      Last time I looked into Gitlab CE I decided not to go with it because there is no pull mirroring outside of their Premium offering, I would consider this a limit. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pull.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pu...
      - TheRealPomax 3y ago
        Limits are not features. There are no limits on number of users, number of repos, etc. etc. However, you're fairly obviously not getting any of the features that are in the paid tiers of gitlab's own offering. It's open core[1], rather than just open source. [1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core...
eddythompson80 3y ago
A fork of what? If you run your own instance you have control over most of those features and limits. You can’t fork a service because what you’re getting from a service is not just the code. It’s the cheaper economy of scale operational aspects of it. It’s much cheaper to pay a SaaS provider, than to have someone on payroll that manages an open alternative of that SaaS for you. The SaaS provider can then introduce arbitrary plans and limits all they want. Do you want to start another company that resells Gitlab hosting that competes with Gitlab.com?
dogleash 3y ago
How much of their business is the self hosted option? I assume but don’t know that gitlab.com exists largely just to show off the product.

There's always Gitea [1]. I've been using that for personal projects and it's perfect. [1]: https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/comparison https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/comparison

mschuster91 3y ago

You can always run a GitLab CE instance on your own, takes less than five minutes to set up at any Docker hosting provider you want.

andrewstuart2 3y ago
I've been hosting my own GitLab for nearly 10 years, and it's been amazing and has grown with my environment really, really well.
LeSaucy 3y ago
These are limited to 10 active users are they not?
- mschuster91 3y ago
  No. They're fine for at least 300 users (which is the case in an instance I run) and you can connect it with Keycloak and LDAP for SSO. You don't get SSO user-group mappings in CE, but heh, if you use Terraform that is easy enough to manage manually even at that size.
- TheRealPomax 3y ago
  There are no limits when self-hosting.
  - __jonas 3y ago
    Last time I looked into Gitlab CE I decided not to go with it because there is no pull mirroring outside of their Premium offering, I would consider this a limit. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pull.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pu...
    - TheRealPomax 3y ago
      Limits are not features. There are no limits on number of users, number of repos, etc. etc. However, you're fairly obviously not getting any of the features that are in the paid tiers of gitlab's own offering. It's open core[1], rather than just open source. [1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-github-is-closed-source/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core...

eddythompson80 3y ago

A fork of what? If you run your own instance you have control over most of those features and limits. You can’t fork a service because what you’re getting from a service is not just the code. It’s the cheaper economy of scale operational aspects of it. It’s much cheaper to pay a SaaS provider, than to have someone on payroll that manages an open alternative of that SaaS for you. The SaaS provider can then introduce arbitrary plans and limits all they want. Do you want to start another company that resells Gitlab hosting that competes with Gitlab.com?

dogleash 3y ago

How much of their business is the self hosted option? I assume but don’t know that gitlab.com exists largely just to show off the product.