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Everything is always fine until someone comes along and starts selling hosting of Open Source SaaS projects. I cannot talk for Zulip and I truly hope they will
by the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
Everything is always fine until someone comes along and starts selling hosting of Open Source SaaS projects. I cannot talk for Zulip and I truly hope they will succeed with not relicensing or closing part of the software.
- mdaniel 3y agoThis strawman argument gets trotted out every time and every instance that I've heard thus far is exactly that. It's the "otherwise the terrorists win" of my profession Ordinarily I would have gladly used Sentry's community and my good experience with its hosting and customer service as rebuttals but now ...
- bentlegen 3y agoAt one point Sentry was packaged with GitLab and bundled as a capability/extension of the GitLab suite of products (see "Error Tracking"): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/39701 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/39701
- mdaniel 3y agoYou are misinformed; they implemented a Sentry-compatible endpoint if the Project enabled it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v15.0.0-ee/lib/api/error_tracking/collector.rb#L5-6 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v15.0.0-ee/lib/a... I feel perhaps you meant to link to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/329596 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/329596 which describes their intention to accept Sentry formatted JSON payloads and store them in their own database. Searching for "no need" in that issue will highlight the number of times they were drawing a distinction between the effort required to run GitLab and the effort to run the 15 containers of Sentry self-hosted