From: Matthew Kelch via rockbox-dev <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:59:01 +0000

Just to follow up on some of Frank's questions on GitLab:


   - You can find the source code for GitLab CE here. It's not just an
   'open core', the majority of the application is open source::
   https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce
   - Anyone can setup a project on GitLab for free. Simply create an
   account here (https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in). They do offer a managed
   host under the brand 'GitHost': https://githost.io/

I agree that GitHub is the industry standard option open source products,
but I think that GitLab is a superior service.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:26 AM Frank Gevaerts via rockbox-dev <
rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:23:40PM +0200, Björn Stenberg via rockbox-dev
> wrote:
> > Hello all patient devs.
> >
> > I'm thinking this might be a good time to grab the bull by the horns and
> do what has needed doing for quite some time: Move parts of our
> infrastructure away from having me as a project bottleneck.
>
> I agree. We need to do something, and I think we need to move to an
> external hosting system. We do not have the manpower to manage our own
> any more. I'm aware of a few hosting providers, which all have
> advantages and disadvantages. I'll list what I can come up with (in no
> particular order). Feel free to add what you know!
>
> Github:
> * "everyone" knows how to use it, a lot of tutorials online
> * Closed source
> * Some people dislike the standard github workflow
>
> Gitlab:
> * Less known than github
> * "Open core". Unclear to me how much of what they run is actually open.
> * Some people dislike the standard gitlab workflow
> * I can't find hosted projects or information about open source hosting
> on their website. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place, but they
> seem *heavily* oriented towards selling private instances and not so
> much towards "community hosting"
> * Not the best reliability track record
>
> Sourceforge:
> * Yes, they still exist, and they do git these days
>
> Launchpad:
> * They do git hosting (https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Git)
> * Even the launchpad home page (https://launchpad.net/) isn't aware
> that they do git hosting.
>
> Frank
>
> --
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
>

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Received on 2017-04-24