GitLab is reportedly up for sale

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GitLab is reportedly up for sale
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I keep basically all of my shit on Gitlab, so depending on who they sell it to, that might be a goodbye. I've really enjoyed the platform, but if it goes into hands of either some clueless business people, data aggregator, or "AI-first" bullshit, i'm migrating to something else.

I'm in the same boat. I migrated all my stuff to Gitlab the day it was announced that Github was being acquired by Microsoft. I hadn't even really heard of Codeberg at the time. So I migrated to Gitlab.

And it sounds now like there's a high likelikhood I'll need to move it all again.

I've had my stuff on Gitlab way before that ever even happened, just because I've already had issues with the platform before, and knew it would eventually change hands. Shame it'll likely happen again with this too

Come to Codeberg! I'm a member of the co-op and we're not for sale.

I've been casually taking a look at it for a bit, so it's definitely on the radar

Edit: Overall i’m happy, at first proper glance, but not having access to even barebones CI is kind of a pain. I can’t really deploy my own at the moment, and having to request access to their own Woodpecker instance is something that seems unlikely to be approved

Codeberg is where I will be next. A nonprofit ownership created because they didn't like the commercialization of other providers that's getting more and more popular. Seems like they likely won't go down this rabbit hole.

You shouldn't wait because it's going to happen. I moved all of my projects off of Github and Gitlab, and now self-hosting my own gitea instance. It's been great and never looked back!

Btw gitea has been involved in some shit, most of the Devs quit and created Forgejo. AFAIK you can seamlessly switch from gitea without needing to completely reset it.

Oh wow, I didn't know that! Is there any official statement? Search didn't turn up anything. I guess I don't necessarily need to know exactly how it went down, but I wanna be nosy. :D

you can seamlessly switch from gitea without needing to completely reset it.

For now; Forgejo is hard forking, which may break things soon.

I actually have an account on there with almost nothing, just my nix configuration, plus a repo I cloned to commit a bug fix on software I used. But it seemed like the most responsible solution as in the price is reasonable, plus I actually like the interface. Codeberg also looks good and claims to be better in some regards, but these are the only choices nowadays.

Anyhow, I'm still waiting for Pijul to have a final 1.0 release and independent hosting solutions to appear.

Same here. Gitlab CI was a game-changer for me, too. Any thoughts on where else you’d consider going? Aside from GitHub, that is.

I suspect that in the worst case scenario, i'll be moving stuff to Codeberg and hosting my own CI to support it

It's funny because despite all the fearmongering about Microsoft's Github acquisition it feels like it only improved since then, while Gitlab has done a shitton of questionable and shitty decisions, a ton of critical security issues and in general feels like (at best) they don't know what they are doing.

The only thing Gitlab has going for itself is that it's self-hostable, but they still retain a large amount of control.

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