Re:Gitlab is reportedly up for sale
by myworkinisgood on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:08AM
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If you are using it for work, then it might be better to make everything paid. That would probably also reduce the cost per user, because we would have more users.
Per-user prices would be way to expensive. Thé self-hosted GitLab instance I manage is used for teaching and research. We don't use it to make money in any sort of way. We don't have the budget to pay for it. If we have to pay in the future we'll just (painfully) switch to another solution.
I'd still prefer self hosting CE, but this may be an option for you if it comes to it:
For self hosting I'd take a look at sourcehut or forgejo. They're fully open source instead of "open core".
disclaimer: While I'm not directly involved with forgejo, I am part of Codeberg e.V., so consider that to be kind of an ad.
I can self-host the community edition for free, and in addition to use it as a software forge and static websites hosting and deployment platform through GitLab Pages, I can use it to manage my users and have third-party services (like mattermost, hedgedoc pads, and other internally developped apps) for centralized login.
I really really hope that the buyer will keep the Community Edition alive, otherwise we'll have to move everything over to something else (I don't know what yet).