> GitLab, a software product used by 2/3 of all enterprises, ...<p>This claim is false. The linked survey shows that GitLab has a 2/3 market share in self-hosted Git providers. Not every enterprise self-hosts a git repository.
As someone who has attempted to contribute to the GNOME project, this makes me super happy. The current process is archaic: attaching patch files to weird bug trackers and then sorta just waiting for someone to get back to you... A proper pull request system with code review would lower the barrier of entry for contributions to these projects significantly.
They claim that Fedora requires a CLA. Which is simply not true. Fedora was one of the first projects to completely remove the need for a CLA. Seven(!) years ago. See <a href="https://opensource.com/law/10/6/new-contributor-agreement-fedora" rel="nofollow">https://opensource.com/law/10/6/new-contributor-agreement-fe...</a>
The title says "Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab" but unless I'm missing something, there's nothing in the article about this supposed migration.
I can't help to think that Gitlab is more and more eating Github's lunch. I wonder why we see so little from Github to get out of that situation.
I don't actually understand this. Are they referring to the agreements for contributing to GitLab itself, or for contributing to things hosted on GitLab, which surely have nothing to do with the hosting at all?
The rationale analysis they published via the linked article is interesting:<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zpjDzL7yhGBZz3_7jCjWLfRQ1Jryg1mlIVmG8y6B1_Q/edit" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zpjDzL7yhGBZz3_7jCjWLfRQ...</a>
An active gitea user here, gitlab is too heavy for my person self-hosting site, at the moment, github for social coding, gitea for personal repo, tried but not jumping on gitlab and do not see a need for that.
I was under the impression that Debian is in the process of moving to Pagure [1]. The reasons mentioned in the LWN article are not invalidated by Gitlab's announcement of dropping the CLA.<p>[1]: <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/724986/" rel="nofollow">https://lwn.net/Articles/724986/</a>
I remember reading awhile back that email was better suited than GitHub for large projects (eg. Linux). Wouldn't that still be the case with GitLab?
Previously discussed the blog post <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15602564" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15602564</a>
I'd really appreciate Web based way of Debian bug reporting. It doens't need to replace the current one, I suppose they can make some Gitlub plugin for e-mail method.
Although unrelated, but with recent migration to Meson in Gnome ecosystem I really want to contribute to their code base in my spare time. Autotools was just like hell to work on!