My company has recently stopped using GitLab and I think it's worth a quick discussion why, because I think these are largely addressible.

Firstly, their paid product for teams is very pricey. Where Github costs ~$4 per seat per month, GitLab charges $29 per month. Even if we assume some portion of that is due to Microsoft's economy of scale and exploitation of user code for things like AI training, that's 7.5x more expensive!

GitLab charges for things like API address, and even more (full price) if you want to do things like store secrets via API.

While the direct cost wasn't a lot, I didn't feel like being nickle and dimed, and the product was just not worth it.

I enjoyed the product, but the pricing wasn't 2x, or even 3x, but >7.x! I felt like I was being taken advantage of, so we left altogether!

#GitLab

The #gnome #bug reporter still wants to push reports onto bugzilla that has been replaced by their #gitlab instance.

Is that a known issue?
Couldn't find any reference online, how that will change in future.

My #fedora rarely crashes so it's not a big issue. However, I'd like to contribute data for improving software.

#question

Looking to leave GitHub?

Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.

But wait — it gets better!

Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by the same folks behind Codeberg, and they're on the Fediverse too: @forgejo.

#GitHub #GitLab #Git #FOSS #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft

"Introducing bumpbuddy"

lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

#bumpbuddy #packaging #ArchLinux #nvchecker #NewVersionCheck #GitLab #Bot #Automation #Python

I know this is for a car, but many a thing cried out at a command line. 😅

#git #programming #gitlab #mergerequest #foss #opensource

#GitLab's newly introduced on-by-default nearly unnoticeable "Read More" hyperlink on bug report descriptions, subtly cutting off any contents longer than the browser window's viewport height—even when you're just following the mandatory template!—has got to be the dumbest anti-feature design of the year.

It's barely been a few days and I've already had someone tell me that I didn't provide the required information, yet it was all there in the description I wrote with the form! 🤦

If you join the GNOME GitLab instance and you want to create or fork a project, you'll see an error that says:
"Limit has been reached You cannot create projects in your personal namespace. Contact your GitLab administrator."

Turns out, you have to add an SSH key to make it work.

forum.gitlab.com/t/i-cant-crea…

#GNOME #GitLab #FOSS

GitLab CFO, Brian Robins, says they are “aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with less. What the Department of Government Efficiency is trying to do is what GitLab does.”

archive.is/okSlz

You either support fascism or you don’t. It’s binary. There’s no gray area or “aligning.”

Considering GitLab? Don’t.

Use @Codeberg instead.

(Hat tip @aphyr)

#Code #Dev #Development #Codeberg #GitLab #Fascism #GIT

Een van de heikele thema's bij het starten als organisatie met opensourcewerken... Welke publicatieplatform kies je? Daniël Vos schreef er een stuk over dat je kunt gebruiken ter inspiratie: opensourcewerken.nl/blog/view/…

Welk platform gebruik jij het liefst? 🤔

#SCM #GitHub #GitLab #opensource
opensourcewerken.nl/blog/view/…

Kiezen voor SCM-platform GitHub of GitLab

Als je aan de slag gaat met opensourcewerken zul je op een gegeven moment een keuze maken voor een sourcecodemanagementsysteem (SCM). Welke scenario's zijn er? Waar…

^{Opensourcewerken}

No more builds breaking without notice.

I wanted to play with home automation for a while now so yesterday I bought a few lights in Ikea, fired up a Home Assistant and made a webhook that I added to my GitLab, so...

#ScreenshotSaturday #GitLab #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #Ikea #IoT #InternetOfThings #CI #CD #CICD #Linux #funny

The Fedora Project is looking for a new git forge to move to, and right now the preference is toward @forgejo over GitLab. We're looking for feedback one more time from the community before the Fedora Council has a vote on it!

Learn more: fedoramagazine.org/fedora-move…

#Fedora #Forgejo #GitLab #OpenSource #Git

Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo - Fedora Magazine

Numerous factors were involved in the decision to move to Forgejo and this article will discuss them, present some background on the process, and invite one more chance for feedback.

^{Akashdeep Dhar (Fedora Project)}

Hey @Tusky, I am eagerly waiting for you to make a new release including PR github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull…

I am affected by that bug that seems to have been reported multiple times by other people as different issues. This was already merged into "develop". When can a release be expected?

Thanks for your ongoing work on this complex app! 😍

#tusky #Gitlab #PullRequest #bugfix

Some GNOME websites are getting modernized and simplified, but Planet GNOME has fallen behind. Not anymore. I started a prototype for a Python script to publish Planet GNOME with GitLab Pages/CI.

As Planet GNOME Editor, I am often asked to look for blog and syndication issues I couldn’t really address due to limited server-side access. With this, debugging indexing issues should be easier as it is just about looking at the CI job output.

Also, the Planet website is perceived as messy and outdated. So this work allowed Jakub Steiner to quickly jump in and restyle the page from a clean state.

Try it live at felipeborges.pages.gitlab.gnom… and let me know what you think. Keep in mind this is a proof of concept. Tips, feedback, and contributions are welcome in the project repo.

This still doesn’t produce the global Planet rss feed, just the webpage, but that’s in my TODO list too.

P.S.: I know feed readers/parsers can over-request rss/atom feeds. So I plan to cache data and use metadata to avoid redundant downloads before this is even considered as a replacement for the current Planet implementation. No worries. 😉

feborg.es/rethinking-planet-gn…

#blogs #feeds #gitlab #gnome #planet #rss

Felipe Borges / planet.gnome.org · GitLab

^GitLab

Anyone with impostor syndrome, take the day off.

GitLab implemented registry auth that silently fails on more than one set of credentials.... for over two years.... and the fixes test suite... contains someones' hard-coded user credentials.

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-r…

#GitLab #GitLabCI

DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG doesn't work with multiple registries (#28073) · Issues · GitLab.org / gitlab-runner · GitLab

Summary Authentication settings for private registries are not applied when pulling a base image for the job if DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG has more...

^GitLab

Impressive, since switching from gitlab-ci to earthly, pipeline runs with container builds went from >20 minutes down to 3-8 minutes.

What a little bit of better caching can do for you.

It's no longer fully self-hosted, but earthly is trivial to self-host if I want to bother at some point.

git.shivering-isles.com/shiver…

And given earthly hands out 6000 CI minutes for free, it actually cuts cost compared to starting a VM on hetzner or locally.

#earthly #gitlab #selfhosting

shared/earthly · a14fb784645bfd08668a2567a173b6cc432ac384 · Shivering-Isles / Infrastructure GitOps · GitLab

GitOps-based setup for infrastructure, including all tooling and instructions for bootstraping

^GitLab

Another article on #OpenSource, this time written by Richard Pope, who was one of the founding members of the UK’s #GDS. There is just so much for which governments can benefit by engaging with the open source communities that they use. Furthermore, the government contributing their work back to the public #GitHub or #GitLab repositories makes the code more secure and drives down the costs for #DigitalGovernment.

digitalpublicgoods.xyz/behave

If you have experience maintaining a GitLab CI runner on macOS, and you wish to contribute to building and testing GLib and GTK on macOS, please join the GNOME Infrastructure channel to help maintaining the macOS server provided by the GNOME Foundation, otherwise we will have to retire it. More details on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/potentia…

#gtk #gnome #macos #ci #gitlab

Potential retirement of the macOS CI builder for GLib and GTK

The GNOME Foundation has been sponsoring a hosted macOS CI runner for a few years, but the admins are now planning to retire it for a couple of reasons: the hardware is getting long in the tooth (it’s still an x86_64 machine) it’s a shared bare met…

^{GNOME Discourse}

Current status : looking for the “*no thanks, I’d rather die*” button.

(And #gitlab, do not suggest ever again that I’m using #VSCode as my “local IDE”. This is totally inappropriate.)

Thank you to GitLab for joining us as a #GUADEC2022 Supporter level sponsor!

It's not too late to sponsor. If you or your company are interested in supporting #GUADEC find more info here: events.gnome.org/event/77/page…

#SupportOpenSource #EventSponsor #GNOME #GitLab

#Gitlab Inc sponsored our work of maintaining a native #debian package of gitlab server software for last 6+ years.

This work made setting up / self hosting gitlab server just running `apt install gitlab` on a debian server.

Now they stopped this funding. We thank them for their support till now and looking for support from the #FreeSoftware community to continue this work.

Donate at opencollective.com/debian-gitl…
... and spread the word!

#debian-gitlab

Debian Gitlab - Open Collective

Make native Debian packages (.deb) of gitlab and its dependencies (mainly ruby, nodejs and golang libraries).

^{opencollective.com}

RT @HRZUni_MR@twitter.com

Gute Vorsätze für 2022? Haben wir zwar nicht - dafür aber schon einige neue bzw. aktualisierte Dienste für Forschung & Lehre @Uni_MR@twitter.com im Testbetrieb. #ILIAS7 Lernplattform #GitLab Versionsverwaltung #Matrix #Element Chat

🐦🔗: twitter.com/HRZUni_MR/status/1…