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Finally someone sharing my opinion about it. I don't get all the hype they get especially on HN. Basically every experience I had with the product has been terrible so far. (And I gave it a lot of chances). I was keeping my thesis code on it and sometimes I go home and try to pull the work I have done in the lab and there's some error that I am facing. I moved my code to both bitbucket/GitHub and have been very satisfied. I am not quite sure what pushed Gnome to such proposal or even considering it. But IMHO using anyone of two other providers would save much time for Gnome contributors.

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They are clearly looking to self-host, which removes some of the issues of GitLab and gives it a massive cost benefit (not even sure if the enterprise products are even usable for public instances). EDIT: it's also the only open-source option of the 3, which per the linked document is important as well.

Sid will correct me if I am wrong but I think a big project like Gnome will want Enterprise because the last time I looked git hook was enterprise feature (hey they have to make money somewhere to keep the lights on)

Overall, I am very grateful that gitlab exists but gitlab.com does make me feel like gitlab over all is a slow piece of software.

Unless there's some special pricing, I don't see any of the enterprise options work out. You can't pay per month per contributor for a projects public bug tracker. So I'd think they'd stay with the CE and hack in/around the features they need.

Gnome is considering to use GitLab CE. Git Hooks are available in that edition https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/custom_hooks.html

The only Enterprise Edition feature that is under discussion is merging without creating a merge commit. We're considering to open source this to make this move work.

GitLab.com still feels slow but running an instance specifically for GNOME should be fast.

Yeah, it's interesting to see all the bad experiences mostly tie back to gitlab.com being shitty. I've run it self-hosted myself and have been extremely happy with it. Almost a totally set-and-forget experience too, assuming you don't care about those little updates all the time and keep it behind your firewall or reverse proxy.

> I don't get all the hype they get especially on HN.

I believe it all started when they got a bad rap for doing unspeakable things like supporting minorities to get into the industry, plus one actually wrong decision by a customer service rep approving a complaint about some word in some repository that could be offensive, but clearly wasn't in the context.

Next followed about a month of constant griping about how awful github is, followed by many many features being released which had been in the pipeline all along.

Meanwhile, everybody on HN was trying to find an alternative. Since going back to Sourceforge would have demonstrated slightly-to-obviously that Github was among the best things that ever happened to OSS, the heavy-hitters moved all their projects to Gitlab, which was a third-rate clone of Github at the time, and may or may not have advanced to second-rate since.

Those two projects are, apparently, really enjoying GL.

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