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Comment by igetspam | Hacker News Reader

This seems very useful. Any plans to support other hosted git providers, like gitlab? I've been needing something like this for a while but we're not using GitHub. I could hack and slash my way to a bad looking version of something lol me this but your dashboards look good and I cannot be trusted with UI/UX.

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Thanks for your feedback! We are planning to add all the other popular git providers like gitlab, bitbucket etc. but we don't know exactly when. This will depend on the interest from our potential users, so if we see enough interest in Gitlab, we will do it soon :)

Would you be using Caribou in a professional setting or for your personal projects? What migrations are you currently doing that Caribou can help you manage?

Professional. We actually regularly run into the problem of where team A updates some chunk of code that is consumer by a dozen or more applications and we need to track the update status of various consumers. I literally had another argument about it today because there was a required change that was announced but multiple parties missed the update and have brolen development pipelines. Being able to identify those internal projects and their update status would be really great for us.

I see. Is the code that gets updated by team A some type of versioned library? And does it sit in the same codebase as the other applications that consume it?

Yes. Golang libs, java libs, terraform versions, container versions, helm library charts, etc. The code is all within the same gitlab org but we're not a monorepo. We have a regular problem tracking consumer updates.

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