KDE Completes Transition To GitLab For Developer Portal

[bug77]

I wonder whether there's some GitLab functionality they needed or they just moved to spite Microsoft. Not that it matters now that it's a done deal.

[carewolf]

Can bug reports opened now as well at gitlab? This would be nice. Bugzilla is not really user friendly.

No. Gitlab issues is only for kde developers for internal task tracking

[cochise]

I wonder whether there's some GitLab functionality they needed or they just moved to spite Microsoft. Not that it matters now that it's a done deal.

GitHub is closed source and not self hostable. KDE have a GitHub mirror, and it will continue, but used cgit + Phabricator + Bugzilla. GitLab is intended as cgit + Phabricator replacement.

[bug77]

GitHub is closed source and not self hostable. KDE have a GitHub mirror, and it will continue, but used cgit + Phabricator + Bugzilla. GitLab is intended as cgit + Phabricator replacement.

GitHub is most definitely "self hostable". I've used it as such.
There: https://enterprise.github.com/faq

[cochise]

GitHub is most definitely "self hostable". I've used it as such.
There: https://enterprise.github.com/faq

Well, I'm wrong here. But is closed source, and KDE don't use closed source software. They even refused to ask for enterprise version of GitLab, and are using the community version.

[bug77]

Well, I'm wrong here. But is closed source, and KDE don't use closed source software. They even refused to ask for enterprise version of GitLab, and are using the community version.

That's the kind of zealotry I'd expect from the other camp. When you talk something as critical as source control, you should use the best tool for the job, license is about the last thing on the list. Imho.
Open source makes even less sense if they're not hosting it themselves, it means they're not changing/improving the code base anyway.

So no, I don't think the license was what swung their decision.

[cochise]

So no, I don't think the license was what swung their decision.

See for yourself:

why KDE won't apply for gitlab gold/ultimate as a opensource software group?

As a matter of community policy, KDE only makes use of freely licensed software. As it requires a license, this excludes the Enterprise Edition versions of Gitlab.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/53206#note_129651392

[bug77]

See for yourself:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab...note_129651392

Ah ok. I didn't know about that. Thanks.
Not the way'd I'd make the same decision, but I have no say in what KDE does.
Also GitLab is a good choice, I was just interested how it compares technically to GitHub. Apparently that wasn't (much of) a factor.