I partially agree.

gitlab is a very good alternative... but i think that porting of a working project (not just code) is still complicate to accomplish. Manually import items like:

- issues - projects - users

it is very expensive in terms of operation.

I know that there are products, libs and API to, let say, mirror your repository, but all those tools, after you dive into some READMEs, are just not enough.

BTW: if anybody knows how to do "1 to 1" porting from github to gitlab i will appreciate it