FreeDesktop.org Migrating To GitLab

[PackRat]

I made a gitlab server on ubuntu 18 last night but I'm a noob I set up ubuntu with btrfs and snapper I just can't get things right. I'm going to make another one with opensuse.

[dungeon]

I think GitLab looks ugly and bloated as hell, but it's an improvement at least.

Well, every web interface is kind of bloat or to say with anything that use javascript YMMV

Altogh gitlab cli for just git based operations should behave the same as any git.

[microcode]

GOD. Yes! Welcome to the 21. century.
I think GitLab looks ugly and bloated as hell, but it's an improvement at least.

What exactly are your complaints related to? I'm kinda interested as I have a bit of time to devote to working on GitLab, and I need to use it for a client anyhow. I too tend to care quite a bit about responsiveness and bloat.

[brrrrttttt]

I enjoy GitLab for personal use, didn't have to fuss setting up a private git server myself, and unlimited participants in your own private servers (unlike GitHub where you have to pay for this very basic functionality)

Only if you consider your time worthless. I use GitHub for so many things I have no problem paying them a few dollars per month, with the bonus that I don't have to bother administering my own git server.

[seijikun]

What exactly are your complaints related to? I'm kinda interested as I have a bit of time to devote to working on GitLab, and I need to use it for a client anyhow. I too tend to care quite a bit about responsiveness and bloat.

A bit condensed (and just my opinion, obviously):
I like that GitLab is open-source, of course. And it's cool that it has that many features - but in the UI, they seem to have their priorities a bit wrong.
For example the page of a repository (Project / Details) if you own the project, is bombarding you with things you can do that are all related to one-time setups. And that's displayed above what you actually care about most of the times (Either files, the Readme, or Commits).
Like this, they are using big buttons to promote the possibility to add a Kubernetes cluster, even though the amount of people that will actually use this is ... small?
Whereas the "buttons" that lead you to a commit or branch listings consist of mere, tiny links whose only eye-catcher is that they are underlined.
They are blending in so much stuff on this page above what is actually interesting, that I have to scroll to even see the files on my notebook.

There is so much text on the page and so much "look here!", that most of the time, I sit in front of the display - searching for stuff. I should maybe add, that I'm completely new to GitLab after having become used to the clean UI of GitHub and Gitea (which I'm using privately). Unimportant stuff, or stuff that is not relevant for most people is hidden behind a setup symbol, improving the look and feel for most people and speeding up workflows. But that's just my two cents.

Something that is only related to the publicly hosted GitLab instance is, that it seems to be quite unstable. Lost databases, crashed databases. I often had to wait 30 seconds until a push completes. But that might be due to a recent outage that just happend after I joined.

[Awesomeness]

I like this decision even more because gitlab is more open source than github

But Google's cloud isn't free, so WTF. Might as well move everything to Github. At least the developer base is there.

[Royi]

That's great news.
GitLab is great.
Probably the best choice for users among the top 3 (GitHb, BitBucket and GitLab).

[Leprechaunius]

Does this mean they are ditching gerrit? Afaik libreoffice uses gerrit (and I guess the freedesktop only provides hosting).
It's a shame though, gerrit is amazing.

[miabrahams]

Gitlab is competitive with Github in terms of user experience while remaining FOSS. Good thing this is finally happening. I think Phabricator is my favorite of all but it is a bit harder to get used to so if the goal is to make it as easy as possible to encourage contributions, yeah this is a no brainer. Way to go wayland.

[polarathene]

But Google's cloud isn't free, so WTF. Might as well move everything to Github. At least the developer base is there.

Were they hosting and managing their own servers before or paying a service/vendor for servers to use? If the latter, what is the difference?

Personally, I'd go with Vultr or Hetzner, better value for money Chances are that Google is providing them the hosting for free though.