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You can also run the open source version of GitLab on your own hardware for free. Gitea is also quite good if you don't need the more advanced functionality that Gitlab provides - for basic git and issue tracking it's good enough.

If you want to spend money on things and you're a small team also consider Atlassian's JIRA $10 for 10 users plan. JIRA might be overkill for small projects, but if you want nice agile project management tools it's pretty good.

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No, don’t use JIRA for developing OSS: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/free-software-needs-free-tools

I generally agree with the statement, but just throwing other tools around - not necessarily just for open source development.

JIRA isn't much worse than GitLab EE license wise - both will give you their full source under a license that you can't do much with it. The only difference is that part of GitLab is available under a better license, but it's not the version you're running if you run EE.

> You can also run the open source version of GitLab on your own hardware for free.

Why not pay 3-10 bucks to be sure that GitLab stays alive for something so critical as hosting your code?

Depends how much you're relying on it I suppose. For even a small business I'd definitely recommend it, but for my personal usage - eh, I'll use whatever's available.

I'm cheap and I don't personally care that much whether they last so long as there's other options available. I wish them the best, but I'm not going to cry over porting some issues to a different system in the worst case.

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