So, who's still left on GitLab?
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@Juankprada @neil I'm largely moving to Forgejo because they have largely compatible Actions, good mirroring features, and working on ActivityPub-based federation.
Plus, Forgejo's relationship with Codeberg means there's some resemblance of a financial plan.
@Juankprada @neil because of Teahouse Hosting, I rank forges by "do they have CI/CD, and do they have OIDC tokens?"
GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo do (and BitBucket, kinda).
Gitea is working on it.
Source Hut and Tangled don't have OIDC.
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So, who's still left on GitLab?
Time to find a new project home?
> AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
@neil gitlab is a prime example of a product succeeding despite the best efforts of the product team.
We used them for 4 years right up until 2020. When it worked it was great, it’s just it had the same uptime as GitHub has now.
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@neil GNOME and related projects
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I am happily using Forgejo for some stuff, and just a plain old remote git instance for other bits, but I'll freely say that my requirements are very limited.
@neil I'll chime in here and say that if one is looking for something very fully-featured and is gonna sysadmin it themselves, Phorge (the currently-maintained community phork of Phabricator) is pretty swell.
A buncha years back at my work we were looking to finally ditch the proprietary bugtracker we used which supported up to Ubuntu 12.04 (!!!) and I did a survey of the options out there and it was the only one that didn't seem to majorly suck. And despite having a ton of features, frankly more than most people could possibly need, it runs fine on a toaster . . . barring LLM scraping doing DDoS attacks all the time, at least.
So yeah, for a single user self-hosting only Git repos Phorge is probably overkill, but if one finds oneself with any particular requirements or really wants All The Features (bugtracker! stackoverflow-style Q&A! code review! a hierarchical wiki! blogging! meme storage! countdowns! calendar! time tracking!) it gets ya *a lot* with rather little overhead. -
I am happily using Forgejo for some stuff, and just a plain old remote git instance for other bits, but I'll freely say that my requirements are very limited.
@neil I’m currently running a GitLab instance. It was good for some years but the writing’s been on the wall for a while - performance has been going downhill (private instance, can’t blame bots), questionable communication from leadership and signs of “AI” popping up.
Migration’s not quite trivial though, the faff of moving tasks/issues is real. Worse, Forgejo’s CI is very basic and at minimum needs a new runner that supports something other than Linux Docker containers. -
So, who's still left on GitLab?
Time to find a new project home?
> AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
@neil I'm going back to CVS.
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So, who's still left on GitLab?
Time to find a new project home?
> AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
@neil Ugh, expect software quality to go down hill.
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So, who's still left on GitLab?
Time to find a new project home?
> AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
@neil i'm still on gitlab, and this is horrifying. Time indeed for a new home.
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@neil Ugh, expect software quality to go down hill.
@neil The whole AI agents automating everything angle in context of recent supply chain attacks is going to bite them big time.
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@neil I’m currently running a GitLab instance. It was good for some years but the writing’s been on the wall for a while - performance has been going downhill (private instance, can’t blame bots), questionable communication from leadership and signs of “AI” popping up.
Migration’s not quite trivial though, the faff of moving tasks/issues is real. Worse, Forgejo’s CI is very basic and at minimum needs a new runner that supports something other than Linux Docker containers. -
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