Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

Re:Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it by Zecc on Friday August 05, 2016 @09:50AM (#12232292)

I couldn't help noticing Gogs is hosted on GitHub...

  https://github.com/gogits/gogs

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Re:Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it by dijit on Friday August 05, 2016 @10:44AM (#12232689)

I don't know how to feel about that, on the one hand it's "not using the soap you're selling" and makes you seem disingenuous about the quality of your product.

However, it is the "home of developers" right now, and they probably would prefer a low barrier to entry for people to get involved.

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Re:Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it by zcdziura on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:24AM (#12233008)

Many large (or aspiring) open-source projects seek to create a community of users around it, and having a lower barrier of entry to create such a community only helps the project. As you've said, GitHub provides such a low barrier.

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Re:Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it by justinclift on Saturday August 06, 2016 @04:23PM (#12239733)

GitLab also started out on GitHub didn't it?

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Re:Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it by sytse on Monday August 08, 2016 @06:19AM (#12246597)

Yes we did. And we still have a non-canonical mirror there https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq#canonical-source

I totally understand why people host open source projects on GitHub.com, most open source developers have accounts there so it lowers the barrier to contributing.

BTW If you host it on GitLab.com people can login with their GitHub account.

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