MovingToGitlab has become a buzzword after the Microsoft-GitHub deal announcement. Thanks to the Gitlab marketing team on playing the right game at the right time. The Gitlab imports are on the rise.<p>But, Gitlab is not the only good alternative to GitHub.<p>I know a few more alternatives like Bitbucket and Codegiant that are equally good and maybe even better in a few aspects.<p>If you know any good alternatives, do list them here. let's not fall prey to the Gitlab marketing movement without proper evaluation.
If you've been keeping up with HN the past day or so there have been a bunch of great discussion around alternatives<p>[1] Kallithea <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17246386" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17246386</a><p>[2] Phabricator <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245649" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245649</a><p>[3] GitTorrent <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17234498" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17234498</a><p>[4] GitHub Alternatives <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241487" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241487</a><p>[5] Gitea <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245246" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245246</a><p>[6] Pagure <a href="https://pagure.io/pagure" rel="nofollow">https://pagure.io/pagure</a><p>[7] ReviewBoard <a href="https://www.reviewboard.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reviewboard.org/</a><p>[8] GitBucket <a href="https://gitbucket.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://gitbucket.github.io/</a><p>[9] Tuleap <a href="https://www.tuleap.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tuleap.org/</a>
GitLab has taken a good amount of funding. Which means they will sell out eventually and the ones concerned about big brother taking over will be right back in this discussion again.<p><a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com" rel="nofollow">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com</a><p>Some type of crowd funded federation needs to be created and owned by all of us if we truly want out from under this type of concern.
Likewise, Git isn't the only distributed source control solution... and probably not even the best, as detailed here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17242015" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17242015</a>
I am a huge fan of Beanstalk. <a href="https://beanstalkapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://beanstalkapp.com/</a><p>Pricing is good, service is excellent, code reviews are really very nice. I have found them excellent to work with.<p>They don't really do the pull request model (at least they didn't a year ago when I switched companies), but work great for feature branches.
IMHO it is not a good time to move out of Github right now.
I think Microsoft will offer a bundled developer ecosystem like Atlassian (bitbucket/trello/jira/confluence/pipelines), Amazon (Cloud9/Codecommit/codestar/chime).<p>I bet a bundle with something like skype / github / visual studio / linkedIn Learning... will come soon.
There's an awesome list at <a href="https://github.com/ianchanning/awesome-github-alternatives" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ianchanning/awesome-github-alternatives</a>
I don't found reason to think that github is different after the deal with Microsoft. So for now I 'll keep trust in github... Otherwise I will use pre concept
If you want to host your own, you can use cgit <a href="https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/" rel="nofollow">https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/</a> and gitolite <a href="https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite</a>
I remember I used to run Indefero for a short while. It was nice, although it'd largely dead and buried now.<p>Sources seems to still be available though: <a href="https://github.com/avit/indefero" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/avit/indefero</a>
<a href="https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#project-management" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#project-manag...</a><p>I posted this before one of the GitHub acquisition threads.
Codegiant I like me for small personal repositories without much importance, like mine. Is it based on gitlab? Tell me more about them. It looks nicer than gitlab.