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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by some_furry on Thursday March 12, 2015 @02:42PM (#9192849)
You said "absolutely no reason" and I gave you an edge case that invalidates your statement.

Maybe "generally no reason" would be better?

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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by the_mitsuhiko on Thursday March 12, 2015 @02:43PM (#9192861)
Nothing in the world is absolute. However so far I have not hear any non nebulous reasons why an Open Source project should be on gitlab.
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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by mintplant on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:49PM (#9193319)
Because GitLab is open source, and the alternatives (GitHub, BitBucket) are not.
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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by the_mitsuhiko on Thursday March 12, 2015 @04:25PM (#9193613)
> Because GitLab is open source, and the alternatives (GitHub, BitBucket) are not.

That's not a reason to use the hosted gitlab version, that might be a reason to self host gitlab.

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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by kibibu on Thursday March 12, 2015 @07:43PM (#9194787)
Not really - if you are into open source because of the ideology and not just for the price then GitLab makes a lot more sense.

If I find a bug in GitLab I can feasibly submit a patch for it.

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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by mintplant on Thursday March 12, 2015 @10:20PM (#9195377)
Also, if you need to, you can migrate to a self-hosted setup without switching to another platform. There's a built-in tool that makes this easy.
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Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code by some_furry on Thursday March 12, 2015 @02:52PM (#9192934)
> Nothing in the world is absolute.

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.

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