Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget

Re:Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget by 0xffff2 on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:56PM (#15169401)

I maintain a couple open source projects on Github that belong to the US Government. Getting them open sourced at all was hard enough. Convincing the powers that be to let me use Gitlab isn't practical.

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Re:Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget by marcosdumay on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:00PM (#15170518)

I assume the intersection of projects that need a no-budget solution for hosting an https site and projects that belong to the US government is zero.

Am I missing something?

I mean, yes, if you have practical problems that make gitlab harder to use, don't use it. No problem at all. But it is still a perfectly valid solution for the problem the GP was trying to solve.

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Re:Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget by 31h on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:40PM (#15169681)

Open source means the project can be redistributed by any user. So any user, including yourself, can re-host the project on Gitlab.

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Re:Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget by _asummers on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:00PM (#15169437)

That's very interesting! I wonder if there's anyone at GitLab interested in becoming an approved vendor for the US government/DOD. I also wonder if the code.mil people are interested in getting the ball rolling on that from their end.

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Re:Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget by vageli on Monday September 04, 2017 @01:52PM (#15169748)

Couldn't you just fork it yourself on gitlab? Or any random person fork it?

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