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So, who's still left on GitLab?

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  • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN This user is from outside of this forum
    neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN This user is from outside of this forum
    neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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    #1

    So, who's still left on GitLab?

    Time to find a new project home?

    > AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.

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    bredroll@mas.toB neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN barubary@infosec.exchangeB ebrum@mastodont.catE sylvie@gabriel.havfruefestning.comS 8 Replies Last reply
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    • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

      So, who's still left on GitLab?

      Time to find a new project home?

      > AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.

      Link Preview Image
      GitLab Act 2

      A letter to our customers and our investors.

      favicon

      about.gitlab.com (about.gitlab.com)

      bredroll@mas.toB This user is from outside of this forum
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      #2

      @neil ugh.... boo..

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      • bredroll@mas.toB bredroll@mas.to

        @neil ugh.... boo..

        bredroll@mas.toB This user is from outside of this forum
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        #3

        @neil fuuuuck...

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        • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

          So, who's still left on GitLab?

          Time to find a new project home?

          > AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.

          Link Preview Image
          GitLab Act 2

          A letter to our customers and our investors.

          favicon

          about.gitlab.com (about.gitlab.com)

          neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN This user is from outside of this forum
          neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN This user is from outside of this forum
          neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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          #4

          I am happily using Forgejo for some stuff, and just a plain old remote git instance for other bits, but I'll freely say that my requirements are very limited.

          matus_chochlik@mastodon.onlineM beaiouns@is.nota.liveB barubary@infosec.exchangeB keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.caK pmdj@mstdn.socialP 5 Replies Last reply
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          • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

            So, who's still left on GitLab?

            Time to find a new project home?

            > AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.

            Link Preview Image
            GitLab Act 2

            A letter to our customers and our investors.

            favicon

            about.gitlab.com (about.gitlab.com)

            barubary@infosec.exchangeB This user is from outside of this forum
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            barubary@infosec.exchange
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            #5

            @neil The AI stuff is why I didn't try Gitlab in the first place. And I'm glad I didn't.

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            • bredroll@mas.toB bredroll@mas.to

              @neil fuuuuck...

              bredroll@mas.toB This user is from outside of this forum
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              #6

              @neil i wonder if my gitlab emulator would be helpful to anyone wanting to make a new platform?

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                tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr
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                @Juankprada

                Back to what is Internet : learn to host your own git repository.

                It is what @neil do.

                From what I understood, @neil is a lawyer, not a computer scientist.

                @neil

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                • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                  I am happily using Forgejo for some stuff, and just a plain old remote git instance for other bits, but I'll freely say that my requirements are very limited.

                  matus_chochlik@mastodon.onlineM This user is from outside of this forum
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                  #8

                  @neil I've moved over 30 repositories from github (when they started pushing their AI stuff) to codeberg.org and I have a gitolite installation on 1 VPC and 4 home computers/laptops/rpi/orangepis that run Linux. So now my git repositories have at least 4 remotes. I'm pretty happy with this setup.

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                  • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN This user is from outside of this forum
                    neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN This user is from outside of this forum
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                    #9

                    @Juankprada

                    It rather depends on your requirements. If you want to collaborate easily with others, for instance, or have a fancy CI pipeline, or whatever.

                    One could just run git, locally, and back it up. All the benefits of git branches, with nothing to host.

                    Or one could also run a remote instance of git, and push from local to remote from time to time too. Perhaps convenient if one is using multiple machines.

                    One could look at a self-hosted "forge", like Forgejo, or pay Codeberg to run it.

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                    • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                      I am happily using Forgejo for some stuff, and just a plain old remote git instance for other bits, but I'll freely say that my requirements are very limited.

                      beaiouns@is.nota.liveB This user is from outside of this forum
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                      #10

                      @neil damn i was just getting used to switching to Mercurial from Subversion

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                      • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                        So, who's still left on GitLab?

                        Time to find a new project home?

                        > AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.

                        Link Preview Image
                        GitLab Act 2

                        A letter to our customers and our investors.

                        favicon

                        about.gitlab.com (about.gitlab.com)

                        ebrum@mastodont.catE This user is from outside of this forum
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                        ebrum@mastodont.cat
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                        #11

                        @neil it gets worse:

                        > Agents merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did. Git itself wasn't designed for that load, and bolting AI onto platforms not built for agents is the biggest mistake of this era. We're doing a generational rebuild of the underlying infrastructure to handle agent-rate work as the default. Git itself is being reengineered for machine scale.

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                        • danielleigh@mastodon.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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                          #12

                          @Juankprada @neil For open source stuff: codeberg. Otherwise, self hosting forgejo isn't too hard.

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                          • ebrum@mastodont.catE ebrum@mastodont.cat

                            @neil it gets worse:

                            > Agents merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did. Git itself wasn't designed for that load, and bolting AI onto platforms not built for agents is the biggest mistake of this era. We're doing a generational rebuild of the underlying infrastructure to handle agent-rate work as the default. Git itself is being reengineered for machine scale.

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                            #13

                            @neil

                            > The monolith is giving way to modern, API-first, composable services. And agent-specific APIs are being built so agents can act as first-class users of the platform, not as bolted-on consumers of human-shaped interfaces.

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                            • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                              @Juankprada

                              It rather depends on your requirements. If you want to collaborate easily with others, for instance, or have a fancy CI pipeline, or whatever.

                              One could just run git, locally, and back it up. All the benefits of git branches, with nothing to host.

                              Or one could also run a remote instance of git, and push from local to remote from time to time too. Perhaps convenient if one is using multiple machines.

                              One could look at a self-hosted "forge", like Forgejo, or pay Codeberg to run it.

                              neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN This user is from outside of this forum
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                              @Juankprada

                              One could just push from git on one local machine to git on another. Fundamentally the same as the "central server" model, since it is all p2p anyway, but perhaps a different mental model.

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                              • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                                So, who's still left on GitLab?

                                Time to find a new project home?

                                > AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.

                                Link Preview Image
                                GitLab Act 2

                                A letter to our customers and our investors.

                                favicon

                                about.gitlab.com (about.gitlab.com)

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                                @neil GNOME and related projects
                                https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups/active

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                                • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                                  I am happily using Forgejo for some stuff, and just a plain old remote git instance for other bits, but I'll freely say that my requirements are very limited.

                                  barubary@infosec.exchangeB This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  @neil For me, the main attractions of Github were remote git hosting and free building and testing of my code on Mac OS and Windows. When Github started pushing their Copilot nonsense, I started looking for alternatives. Forgejo doesn't give me Mac/Windows testing, but for my own projects it's easier to just drop Windows support altogether. In the past I tried to make sure my code was reasonably portable and worked on exotic platforms like Windows, but I do this in my free time and Microsoft doesn't care about developers like me, so I don't really see the point anymore.

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                                  • neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.ukN neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

                                    So, who's still left on GitLab?

                                    Time to find a new project home?

                                    > AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.

                                    Link Preview Image
                                    GitLab Act 2

                                    A letter to our customers and our investors.

                                    favicon

                                    about.gitlab.com (about.gitlab.com)

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                                    @neil yay (not yay). So much meaningless fluff packed in around that too. I really can't wait for this thing to actually pop and done if these companies and CEOs to disappear in clouds of smoke

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                                    • astraluma@tacobelllabs.netA This user is from outside of this forum
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                                      astraluma@tacobelllabs.net
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                                      @Juankprada @neil Forgejo (there's a few instances)

                                      Source Hut

                                      Tangled's an up-and-comer

                                      Niche stuff like gitolite

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                                      • astraluma@tacobelllabs.netA astraluma@tacobelllabs.net

                                        @Juankprada @neil Forgejo (there's a few instances)

                                        Source Hut

                                        Tangled's an up-and-comer

                                        Niche stuff like gitolite

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                                        @Juankprada @neil I'm largely moving to Forgejo because they have largely compatible Actions, good mirroring features, and working on ActivityPub-based federation.

                                        Plus, Forgejo's relationship with Codeberg means there's some resemblance of a financial plan.

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                                        • astraluma@tacobelllabs.netA astraluma@tacobelllabs.net

                                          @Juankprada @neil I'm largely moving to Forgejo because they have largely compatible Actions, good mirroring features, and working on ActivityPub-based federation.

                                          Plus, Forgejo's relationship with Codeberg means there's some resemblance of a financial plan.

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                                          @Juankprada @neil because of Teahouse Hosting, I rank forges by "do they have CI/CD, and do they have OIDC tokens?"

                                          GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo do (and BitBucket, kinda).

                                          Gitea is working on it.

                                          Source Hut and Tangled don't have OIDC.

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