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For us, it's mainly for legacy reasons. We used to have a self-hosted GitLab instance as a fledling company and then switched to SaaS GitLab after the company g

by Hamuko 2y ago

For us, it's mainly for legacy reasons. We used to have a self-hosted GitLab instance as a fledling company and then switched to SaaS GitLab after the company grew and IT spent too much time maintaining it, with an Ultimate subscription to get access to the security tools. If this was my company, we would be on GitHub since GitLab Ultimate is super fucking expensive and those security tools are buggy as hell. Not sure if the GitHub ones are any better, but surely they can't be worse. Granted, I don't know how much we actually pay since Ultimate price these days is "contact sales", but I'm pretty sure it used to be like $99/user/month. (We also wouldn't be paying for Jira on top of GitLab/GitHub.)

Aeolun 2y ago
Github Advanced Security is $79/user per month (on top of $21/user per month for enterprise edition), but is actually really good. I’ve considered buying it for my own private repositories because it’s so nice (yes, a single person enterprise account is fine with Github too, and you can pay monthly). I… used to like Gitlab, but it’s like they lost their way a few years ago and now I’d never recommend them.
- Hamuko 2y ago
  GitHub's pricing page says that it's $49/user/month extra on top of that $21/user/month Enterprise fee. So even though it's kinda pricey, it's still less than the $99/user/month that GitLab Ultimate was.
  - Aeolun 2y ago
    Huh, it got cheaper! Yay.
acdha 2y ago
> If this was my company, we would be on GitHub since GitLab Ultimate is super fucking expensive and those security tools are buggy as hell. That’s my concern, too: there are some appealing features on paper but I’d bet it’s going to be like everything else where you get to debug a convoluted thicket of YAML & scripts when you get out of the simplest use-cases, and you can spend time writing tools to paper over the rough edges. GitHub certainly isn’t perfect but I feel it’s a lot less common that it seems like the developers don’t use their own product.

by Hamuko 2y ago

Aeolun 2y ago

Github Advanced Security is $79/user per month (on top of $21/user per month for enterprise edition), but is actually really good. I’ve considered buying it for my own private repositories because it’s so nice (yes, a single person enterprise account is fine with Github too, and you can pay monthly). I… used to like Gitlab, but it’s like they lost their way a few years ago and now I’d never recommend them.

Hamuko 2y ago
GitHub's pricing page says that it's $49/user/month extra on top of that $21/user/month Enterprise fee. So even though it's kinda pricey, it's still less than the $99/user/month that GitLab Ultimate was.
- Aeolun 2y ago
  Huh, it got cheaper! Yay.

acdha 2y ago

> If this was my company, we would be on GitHub since GitLab Ultimate is super fucking expensive and those security tools are buggy as hell. That’s my concern, too: there are some appealing features on paper but I’d bet it’s going to be like everything else where you get to debug a convoluted thicket of YAML & scripts when you get out of the simplest use-cases, and you can spend time writing tools to paper over the rough edges. GitHub certainly isn’t perfect but I feel it’s a lot less common that it seems like the developers don’t use their own product.