GitLab is reportedly up for sale
GitLab is reportedly up for sale
As AI and cloud computing fuel acquisitions in the technology sector, these mergers and acquisitions are increasingly under review.
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Fuck. No other source forge supports groups or orgs with hierarchical projects 🫤 Gitea and Forgejo went hard on being github clones, so they're off the list. Are there any other alternatives? I don't want to have to bash together scripts to make something...
It’s not a dealbreaker for me but I feel your pain. Getting everything organized in Gitlab is a pleasure.
I looked into it after this year's massive price hike... There's no meaningful alternative. We're on the FOSS version of GitLab now (GitLab-CE), but the lack of code ownership / multiple reviewers / etc. is a real pain and poses problems with accountability.
Honestly there are not that many features in Gitlab EE that are truly necessary for a corporate environment, so a GitLab-CE fork may be able to set itself apart by providing those. To me there are two hurdles:
- Legal uncertainties (do we need a clean room implementation to make sure Gitlab Inc doesn't sue for re-implementing the EE-only features into a Gitlab fork?)
- The enormous complexity of the GitLab codebase will make any fork, to put it mildly, a major PITA to maintain. 2,264 people work for GitLab FFS (with hundreds in dev/ops), it's indecent.
Honestly I think I'd be happy if forgejo supported gitlab-runner, that seems like a much more reasonable ask given the clean interface between runner and server. Maybe I should experiment with that...