Developer-roadmap: GitLab should be included as a serious alternative to GitHub

[eddieajau]

Couple of reasons:

• free private repo's and free org's
• integrated CI (which can be also added to the DevOps chart)
• it's Open Source (GitHub is not)
• you can submit issues that are tracked openly and transparently (everyone knows the GitHub email is a back hole of in-action - gist comment notifications anyone)
• the company is completely focused on the product, not the latest social issue (not that the later is necessarily a bad thing, expect when you seem to be doing more of it than actually building your product)

[ghost]

+1

[luchillo17]

@UnitedPE Dude dont +1 the issues you want to support, that's the reason for the 👍 emojis under the issues.

Want to express your support? click the emoji, don't clutter the issue comment history with just +1 that don't add nothing else to the discussion.

[ferdis]

+1

[damengilland]

So look, there are a lot of alternatives to GitHub...

I'd go with Atlassian Bitbucket and AWS CodeCommit before I put in GitLab. GitLab may get there... but it'll be a while before it has the traction of other systems (the number of tools that cleanly integrate with it isn't that high yet). I'd probably even put SVN over GitLab... again just for current usage states.

I fundamentally don't trust GitLab yet. Hard to recommend them to enterprise clients given some of their major SNAFUs in the last year. But... admirable they are so open about their failures and are working to improve.

• GitLab.com Database Incident | GitLab || https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/

• GitLab repairs critical flaw that lets users log in as admins | InfoWorld || http://www.infoworld.com/article/3067126/security/gitlab-fixes-critical-flaw-that-lets-users-log-in-as-admins.html

[luchillo17]

I actually have respect for them, though i can't say nothing about their service since i don't use it.

When i say i respect them, is because almost none organization has the b%lls to admit they screw up, they did messed up, and most likely they will not make the same mistake again, at least they are honest with their clients.

To me that's impressive.

[eddieajau]

Hard to recommend them to enterprise clients given some of their major SNAFUs in the last year.

They all have their moments. GitHub has had some stunning failures over the years.

[NonameSLdev]

Instead of arguing over who's the best, maybe make this issue about adding alternatives to github _such as_ bitbucket, gitlab, etc.?

[jeffanthony]

Git is part of the devops stack, GitHub, GitLab etc. are simply variations of that tool, some with additional awesome features. That being said i consider GitLab to be the 'in-house' solution while GitHub is the 'outsource' solution

[kamranahmedse]

@eddieajau thank you for reporting but Github is mentioned not because you should learn it but because of the way it is being used for the opensource and that you should use it to look at the code that people have been sharing.