They endlessly tooted their horn about their diversity and fully remote operations. So this is pretty rich.
“This isn’t cost cutting” Oh, fuck off. This is trimming the fat before they try to look for a buyer again.
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Sucks, I manage GitLab in our company and it’s been difficult to maintain already without the vibe coded shit updates that break everything. I’ll need to see what are our options our but my assumption is that there aren’t any.
Forgeo?
The enterprise features we rely on do not exist in Forgejo last time I checked (8 months ago). Maybe it improved. Hell, my company would probably even be onboard moving to Forgejo if we can get a support contract with them and some of the enterprise features we rely upon (SCIM being the main one).
GitLab
lol I just created my gitlab account today to get away from github and after reading this the account has been scheduled for deletion and now I have a new account with Codeberg. When are these dipshits going to learn that we don't want AI in our workflows? I am capable of breaking things on my own, but at least when I break things I will learn from it.
Run gitea on a small box.
Selfhost
Ugh, but I don't want to buy a Mac mini for those CI builds
Yeah I could do that, I have never done it before though which is why I was looking for another remote to use. Are there any good guides/tools out there you would recommend?
Check out forgejo self hosting gitlab is overkill.
I just selfhost bare git repos on an ssh server
That’s a perfectly viable approach for users who aren’t interested in forge tooling and just need git push/pull capability.
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Gitlab CEO - 16 years in Microsoft, Gitlab CTO - 13 years in Microsoft
Can we say Microsoft Gitlab ?
I hope not: we’re migrating from Gitlab to GitHub. I was never a fan because of the lack of enterprise features in GitHub (folders, with more granularity of settings and permissions, scalable usability), and certainly GitLab CI was extremely limited but wtf
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"Software will be built by machines, directed by people."
Oh my lord. Is this a delayed April Fools post?
Just like everyone has already done I'd also recommend Codeberg/Forgejo👌
I always love to see companies do this with a semi open source product with investors
The code gets closed, a small clump of users split off, make their own version with beet and hookers, and soon the vast majority of the users following because the real open source one is so awesome
That was jellyfin's story, but this is a variation on that and I've seen this story many times now
Bye bye gitlab,rest in pieces
with beet and hookers
I work on Jellyfin, but don't like beets. Do I need to fork again?
Is every mother fucker just going bat shit insane this year? Goddamn it.
Idiotic. Use codeberg.
MacOS CI jobs?
Gitlab deleted ☢️ Selfhosting ♻️
They once were a promising alternative to MS GitHub but now they’re going down the same route.
Still hosting gitlab.
The CI on forgejo is, unfortunately, nowhere near as good.
Given how long gitlab has been struggling to fix basic bugs and instead creeping into features - hello-oo bloated and slow vscode-like web editor and non-ephemeral runner management - I'm not sure they have any staff left to let go. But it's nice they found an excuse to shed their remaining talent and avoid complete stock devaluation.
The planning is happening openly, including a voluntary separation window.
"We don't understand how the Dead Sea Effect works, and we want to super-size the damage.". Okay. Bill.
FWIW Forgejo with Woodpecker CI is 👌 - a lot more like gitlab ci without the bullshit. It's still basic by comparison though. I don't think it supports templates
Ouch. My company was just about to start moving over to GitLab off of Atlassian.
That makes sense, since Gitlab seems to be trying to challenge Atlassian. In who manages to make worse software...
- Software will be built by machines, directed by people.
- The agentic era multiplies demand for software. As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.
objectively insane.
Governance built into the core.
I still believe that's not possible, but that's only my opinion.
As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.
This part actually makes sense. Plenty of software doesn't get written because it's just easier or cheaper to do without it. It's why BPM tools exist. Simplify the coding process and you can solve problems more cheaply.
I also think this will kill BPM tools. Why use BPM tooling when creating a real app is just as easy and more customizable?
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I don't think that they've used enough buzzwords.
Increased buzzword utilization is part of their go forward strategy that begins implementation in Q3 pending socialization of relevant KPI. obviously.
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The only upside I see is their stock has fallen since this announcement. Perhaps the market is finally getting that companies pushing AI isn't a universal good thing?
Oh god that is so cringe. Just getting into coding i have no idea what to use as an online repo. I dont want to use github because microsoft but i want the basic repo collaboration features to be available cloning, pull requests, issues etc.
Codeberg for hosted, Forgejo for selfhosted.
They are great.
If you don't want to host something yourself, check codeberg
I like codeberg and have no plans on migrating away from it, but their codeberg Pages product is...weak to say the least. There's very frequent downtime. I had multiple users reach out to me letting me know my site was down... embarrassing. I set up kuma uptime checks on it, and now I see when the outages happen.
Forget "four 9's" or anything close to that....my 30 day uptime is a measley 91%...
They communicate that openly tho:
Regular maintenance window: We're meeting every Tuesday starting 18.00 Berlin time (currently 17.00 UTC), lasting up to 8 hours. While we announce large scheduled downtimes in advance, there might be minor interruptions due to maintenance work happening during the meeting. Please be patient in this case.
https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg
Not sure if that's also for the Pages feature, but in general having a weekly 8hr maintenance window is not optimal.
That's true, but even at worst case (full 8 hour outage per week) that's still 96% uptime.
Most of my outages have been out of that window.
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