GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors. (about.gitlab.com)
from tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 12 May 07:31
https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/683024

Lots of layoffs (“re-evaluating our operational footprint”) and switching to “agentic” processes. Target user is AI.

Anyone still hosting Gitlab?

#selfhosted

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Dirk@lemmy.ml on 12 May 07:34 next collapse

They once were a promising alternative to MS GitHub but now they’re going down the same route.

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 12 May 07:40 next collapse

Oh god that is so cringe. Just getting into coding i have no idea what to use as an online repo. I dont want to use github because microsoft but i want the basic repo collaboration features to be available cloning, pull requests, issues etc.

unitedwithme@lemmy.today on 12 May 07:41 next collapse

Host a Gitea?

See reply comment below

dan@upvote.au on 12 May 07:49 collapse

Or Forgejo, which is a fork of Gitea and is what Codeberg uses. They explain their advantages over Gitea here: forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

The tl;dr is that Forgejo is maintained by a non-profit whereas Gitea is maintained by a for-profit company, and Forgejo is completely open-source whereas Gitea is open-core with some features only available in their hosted service. Forgejo also has better testing and a bigger focus on security.

unitedwithme@lemmy.today on 12 May 08:12 collapse

Oh dang I didn’t realize! Thank you!! I was just starting to look at those things myself and wanted to also avoid GH. Plus Gitea was available on Yunohost too. I’ve heard of Codeberg, I’ll see if I can host that instead. It’s too bad other companies don’t move away from GH…

Legianus@programming.dev on 12 May 07:45 next collapse

Codeberg, I can recommend

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 12 May 07:55 collapse

Isnt codeberg centralized? I worry it will run into the same issue as github. I was checking out Radicle but its cryptic and hard to search for other projects.

Legianus@programming.dev on 12 May 08:04 next collapse

Oh sorry, I might have misunderstood your question. Yes, Codeberg is centralised, but it is registered at a public e.V. in Germany making it more open (not a company).

But then you could use what they use, Forgejo to self host.

Or Gittea as suggested by somebody else.

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 12 May 08:05 next collapse

It is but they’re working on federation for forgejo (which powers Codeberg).

ozoned@piefed.social on 12 May 08:05 next collapse

Codeberg is supporting forgejo which Codeberg is built on. Forgejo is ActivityPub powered git repositories. So imagine regular git, but everyone can have their own repos on their own sites and you can still interact with each other. So yes, Codeberg is centealized FOR NOW. But they’re working on opening it up to EVERYONE to run their own and be able to access all the repos you use over the Fediverse.

oce@jlai.lu on 12 May 08:18 next collapse

Will it be possible to have decentralized pull requests? Like I open a PR on my site, my friend reviews my PR on his site, and I get his reviews on my site?

Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de on 12 May 08:24 collapse

That’s the plan, but it’s still far away

oce@jlai.lu on 12 May 08:44 collapse

That’s nice

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 12 May 08:27 next collapse

That sounds like the dream.

FishFace@piefed.social on 12 May 08:37 collapse

Just like bluesky is centralised “for now” i.e. forever

belazor@lemmy.zip on 12 May 08:16 next collapse

It’s funny coming from the Plex thread into this; ~100% of people who keep using Plex do so because it’s centralised and it makes sharing their library with their network of family and friends easier.

The truth is; a lot of us feel like we need more internet accounts about as much as we need genital warts. Part of the reason GitHub got successful was the fact that you only needed to register once and you had access to fork and PR all the repos on there.

Decentralisation is great for self hosting things for, well, yourself and your household, but it’s got hefty downsides. Account creation is a friction point for others to join and collab.

realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip on 12 May 08:23 next collapse

Even if, switching your used repo hosting service is a matter of minutes if you’re using git. You register on the other site, add your SSH key, update the remote URL of your repository which is just a git remote set-url origin <new url> and then hit git push, probably with something like --force or another option, kinda forgot the exact name. So that’s something you could easily automate in like 10 lines of bash script for all your repositories.

It’s super hard to “trap” people in something like github because git is so open and decentralized. Switching is super easy. Most people who stay on github or gitlab do it because they need the CI/CD pipelines or because they’re lazy and/or stupid.

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 12 May 08:31 next collapse

When I read this discussion on HackerNews they act like they’re trapped and it would require moving the sun and the earth to switch over.

FishFace@piefed.social on 12 May 08:38 collapse

And the open issues, tasks and pull requests?

Right.

Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 12 May 09:32 collapse

Those are all part of the forge, not git.

  • A git migration is easy.
  • Forge migration usually requires some form of migration tool to get all the forge specific stuff (like issues, PR’s and todos).

The 2 are very different things.

FishFace@piefed.social on 12 May 09:48 collapse

And what kind of service is gitlab, which we are discussing here, or github which was brought up in the comment, or codeberg?

Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 12 May 10:32 collapse

They are forges.

I think the comment of migrating git, was more for smaller and maybe private projects. Not large collaborations. So only the git part, not the forge part.

vogi@piefed.social on 12 May 08:23 collapse

Its centralized, but they (forgejo, the underlying software) are building on standards wherever possible so it should be easy enough to move things around. I also don’t really see them breaking bad anytime soon, at some point you have stop worrying and start to build shit.

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 12 May 07:45 next collapse

If you don’t want to host something yourself, check codeberg

Slotos@feddit.nl on 12 May 07:51 next collapse

Codeberg or sourcehut.

Gitlab was always cringe.

dan@upvote.au on 12 May 07:56 next collapse

For a beginner, I’d probably stick to Github initially, just because there’s so many guides and tutorials on how to use it, and their free plan is still pretty generous.

A lot of the knowledge is transferable though. If you do want to try something else, Codeberg is pretty good for open-source.

To just learn about Git, you don’t even need a host like Github or Codeberg. You can have a Git repo just on your computer, and still get a bunch of the benefits of source control - a full history of everything, separate branches and worktrees so you can have multiple incomplete changes and switch between them, etc.

Domino@quokk.au on 12 May 08:02 collapse

Codeberg

Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social on 12 May 07:46 next collapse

This reads almost like a parody.

rimu@piefed.social on 12 May 09:46 collapse

The only large mainstream competitor, which would probably benefit from github’s troubles: “We saw github breaking itself regularly because of it’s own slop coding AND flooded with trash vibe coded projects and thought - that’s where we wanna be!”

esc@piefed.social on 12 May 07:57 next collapse

Gitlab and gitlab-ci really are great and easy to support with little problems as long as you update regularly. It really does look cringe, but they always were chasing current dumb thing relentlesly.

eleijeep@piefed.social on 12 May 08:08 next collapse

Shameful behaviour.

NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net on 12 May 08:31 collapse

An almost inevitable result of venture capital, IMHO.

vane@lemmy.world on 12 May 08:14 next collapse

All I see is layoffs and creating office space to force people to go to office. Well RIP Gitlab.

myrmidex@belgae.social on 12 May 08:17 next collapse

Some examples of the mindset we expect every team member to embody:

  • I take pride in my work because it delivers real outcomes

fucking drones

doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de on 12 May 09:20 collapse

I care deeply for the customer and the business health

Sure bud

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 12 May 08:30 next collapse

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
Plex Brand of media server package
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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it_depends_man@lemmy.world on 12 May 08:57 next collapse

  1. Software will be built by machines, directed by people.
  1. The agentic era multiplies demand for software. As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.

objectively insane.

Governance built into the core.

I still believe that’s not possible, but that’s only my opinion.

CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone on 12 May 09:44 next collapse

I don’t think that they’ve used enough buzzwords.

the_wise_wolf@feddit.org on 12 May 09:45 next collapse

This is why we built and released the Duo Agent Platform in January. Our first quarter adoption is promising, and we’re ready to accelerate.

This is so weird. They gave a Duo presentation at our company and I was a bit second hand embarrassed because it’s just bad.

Anyway, the stock price will probably go up after this announcement…

nialv7@lemmy.world on 12 May 09:48 next collapse

Ok what are we going to call them now? Gitslop? Sloplab?

makeshift0546@lemmy.today on 12 May 10:35 collapse

I like AI and use it. This post was just sad. What a crazy way to announce you don’t have an AI product while saying your product is dead.