Did you use it? Gitlab has barely any open source projects let alone developers on it. Say as much as you want, but for many open source projects community is a big deal.
Currently there is absolutely no reason to use Gitlab. Neither does it do things better than Github or Bitbucket in any way, nor does it have a larger community. It's "just" another github clone.
> Really? I'm surprised. I started coding a forum platform and I only amassed 3 stars. On my non-furry personas, I've capped out at about 13.
The second biggest project on gitlab has 36 stars: https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/starred
The 9th largest already has less than the 13 stars you mentioned on your personal project.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-get-off-russias-blacklis...
Since you used the words, "absolutely no reason", here's a counterpoint: as part of an anti-censorship hydra effort.
All X is Y.
At least one X is not Y.
^-- contradiction
I don't see how this is relevant at all? First of all github did not remove that content, it IP blocked it. Secondly what do you think that gitlab would do if they would be hit by this?
Do you think it's better for github to go down for Russia entirely? Imagine that would be your proposal for what gitlab should do. Then it would even stronger enforce that gitlab is not a place to go for an Open Source project.
Why should your project suffer and become unavailable because some other project violated Russian law?
Maybe "generally no reason" would be better?
That's not a reason to use the hosted gitlab version, that might be a reason to self host gitlab.
If I find a bug in GitLab I can feasibly submit a patch for it.
I'll drink to that :)
> However so far I have not hear any non nebulous reasons why an Open Source project should be on gitlab.
Heh, that's okay. I'm not here to convince anyone of anything.
What reasons do you have to you believe this statement? I'm curious.
> The projects with the most stars on gitlab s gitlab itself with 221 stars right now. Even the smallest nodejs project achieves that popularity on github.
Really? I'm surprised. I started coding a forum platform and I only amassed 3 stars. On my non-furry personas, I've capped out at about 13.
I don't think popularity in github projects is fairly distributed enough to use that as a refutation of the quality GitLab has to offer. It's a bigger bandwagon, sure, but that's all.
While a big bandwagon can be attractive (it is for me), I don't think it's fair to disqualify a competitor based on this metric alone.