GitLab is reportedly up for sale

I keep basically all of my shit on Gitlab, so depending on who they sell it to, that might be a goodbye. I've really enjoyed the platform, but if it goes into hands of either some clueless business people, data aggregator, or "AI-first" bullshit, i'm migrating to something else.

Time to federate repos?

https://forgejo.org/

The chances of a deal are said to be weeks away, if not non-existent.

What kind of non-sentence is that?

Fuck

I feel like sourcehut really ought to be mentioned more. It federates issue and PRs by email and has a wonderful interface while not having any ads—which is why hosting one's own repo (and their CI and IRC but nothing else) requires $2 a month, unfortunately.

FYI you can self-host GitLab, for example in a Docker container.

GitLab still doesn't even support leaving comments on a commit message. Like, what? GitLab and GitHub have all these fancy shiny features but still suck at offering basic code review functionality.

I never understood the appeal.

Ive been meaning to move to codeberg, self hosted forgejo, or sourcehut so this will only accelerate that if things get worse.

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...

Anti Commercial-AI license

An other one bites the dust :'(

Don’t worry everyone! It’ll get bought by some investment firm or by a large company (Microsoft [to shutter it], Google, etc) and everything will be just fine.

Right?

sigh

GitLab is a security nightmare, good luck to whoever purchases that.

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So.. just to repeat myself for the 300th time

This is a good example of why people use GitHub

Because it's an advantage that it's hosted by a large company like Microsoft. There's very little chance it's going to be shut down or sold off. So developers don't need to worry about their infrastructure as much

One of our projects failed because we got caught up in infrastructure.

It's funny though how the people who are the most vocal against GitHub aren't responding to this post. But they're happy to make the biggest deal about every little button on it....

@obbeel Oh that's not a good sign