If you've dealt wih servers and played with rails it should be pretty trivial for you to set up gitlab. Remember it's open source so before you say it's too hard there are paid alternatives that have one click installers. Gitlab is a fantastic project and it would be worth the time getting it installed.

GitLab is a fantastic project and it is open source but that needs to stop being an excuse for how terrible an install process it has. It wouldn't be a problem or me to install it but it is a huge barrier for many people using it.

GitLab.com co-founder here. Thank you for commenting. We're looking into packaging but this will take some time. Maybe you can try the Bitnami images (http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab), they are already upgraded to 6.0.

Hey sytse, Is there any downside to using the bitnami images?

Not as far as I know, they are very good.

Taking a look at the installation process, and it is pretty much trivial, but long. The developers could try creating an apt-get package for even simpler installation.

Yep, I'm actually making one and a dockerfile for it as we speak just so that I can deploy it myself easier. I may make it public.

Maybe also have a look at https://github.com/crashsystems/gitlab-docker

The install instructions are incredibly simple. As long as you follow the instructions it is set up in less than 30 minutes...

I would not call them "incredibly simple", but I have also gotten gitlab going in about half an hour, twice.

It is as simple as copy and paste, make some small modifications to the configuration file and you go from a stock Ubuntu server install to having Gitlab up and running.

I would call that simple.

to a non-sophisticated user, following instructions (which they may or may not understand the reasons for) instead just running a single executable is complicated.