I put all of my new open source stuff on GitLab - not because it's better per se, but because I feel like GitHub has a bit of a cultural monopoly and that an active competitor will push the entire community to a higher standard.<p>GitLab <i>does</i> have the advantage of an excellent, container-based CI... but there's nothing stopping you from using GitHub to host your repositories and GitLab to run your CI if that's what you choose.
I'd go with GitHub, your potential users/contributors have a higher probability of having an account on GitHub which makes it easy for contributions. Moreover, there are a hundred free CI/CD services which work with GitHub and not GitLab.
Doesn't really matter.
But I'd pick Github.
Github's familiar to more Devs. It's hard to find people using Gitlab but haven't used Github but the vice versa is fewer than few.
Well, I would say to push on GitHub and mirror to GitLab, but GitLab only allows that with their enterprise edition - <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.html#overview" rel="nofollow">https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.htm...</a><p>So to use both you’d have to push to both, which doesn’t seem like a hard task to automate.
GitLab. We at GNU Wget have almost entirely moved all our development processes to Gitlab and its been amazing.<p>The CI integration is far better than what github + Travis offer.<p>Gitlab has been steadily improving and I don't see any lags and slowdowns which used to be a thing in the past.<p>Not to mention that they are far more open about their platform and don't enforce propriety scripts on you.
It would depend on your goals... If you just want to fit with everybody else, use github. If you don't mind the dual licensing model of gitlab, go with it. If you really care about open source, either use notabug[1], savannah[2], or self host your own. Personally, my preference is with notabug. I only use github extremely rarely.<p>[1] <a href="https://notabug.org" rel="nofollow">https://notabug.org</a>
[2] <a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org" rel="nofollow">https://savannah.nongnu.org</a>
Why not host it on GitLab and set up push mirroring to GitHub? You get the advantages from the extra features that GitLab offers and the extra visibility from GitHub.
Most trackers only tracking Github, e.g.: <a href="https://risingstars.js.org/2017/en/" rel="nofollow">https://risingstars.js.org/2017/en/</a>