I've seen some comments about how "gitlab bad" or whatnot, why do people prefer Codeberg over GitLab?
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Codeberg is fully open source(forgejo) while gitlab has an open source core+community edition but a source available propietary enterprize edition.
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Codeberg is a nonprofit with no ulterior motives. Gitlab is a publicly traded for profit entity with a goal to make profit
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This could just be me, but codeberg feels a lot more transparent. When they have outages, they explain why.
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Super minor, but the codeberg team "self-hosts" their own servers so you only need to trust the one entity rather than additionally trusting the server provider.
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gitlab.com is a for profit service/company. They have an open-source community edition of Gitlab which you can run on your own server. Codeberg is a non-profit association running the open-source software "forgejo" for you. At Codeberg you can become a member and then you can vote for important decisions and make proposals. People also care about ethics there. Nobody cares about profit. Codeberg runs on donations from members. I think some people feel more respected at Codeberg because the governing body of Codeberg is a subset of its users. If Gitlab cares about you, then probably because a bad user experience would be bad for business.
Something not mentioned yet: Forgejo, the software running Codeberg, has a smaller feature set and narrower scope than GitLab ("GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform" from their website).
Forgejo is much easier to administrate for smaller groups. For example compare the dependencies mentioned in the Forgejo installation documentation and the Gitlab installation documentation.
Right. Paid Gitlabs features tend to be targeted as an all in one DevOps platform for larger scale organizations. So how do you do support tickets, CI/CD, feature tracking and coordination for a portfolio of products, documentation, revision control, code reviews, security reviews, etc? In Gitlabs world the answer is Gitlab, with integrations with other enterprise software. It's HUGE. That said I've never heard of an organization (probably due to ignorance not lack of existence) actually doing all of that.
I personally I'm kind of leaning towards building a proof of concept of forgejo, tekton, and maybe Odoo to see if it can cover what my org is actually doing, but he'll we pay for tons of stuff but the amount of excell sheets floating around doing this is wild...
Ah come on, we all know as software people we can never stop the spreadsheets from being the real data interchange format ;)
Hey, at least remote works been really putting nails in the coffin of printed documents floating around.
But seriously keeping to a good set of tools, providing them at scale and some training will hopefully make the fall back to spreadsheets less attractive to at least the middle wave of adopters.
GitLab is not completely open source. It is owned by a for profit corporation.
Codeberg runs on Forjego which is open source. It is run by a non-profit.
Not just for profit, but publicly-traded in the US where shareholders will get to make decisions & there are legal obligations to make profit for those shaleholders
Just curious, what part isn't open source? I'm running a dockerized instance of it on my local server and have made my own modifications to the rails code in several places to meet my needs closer. Haven't seen anything that would indicate it wasn't open source, so just wondering where I should be looking. Unless these comments are related to the .com website and not personal instances
I have found that it was mainly issue and support tracking features that was "missing" from the free community edition of Gitlab.
Ahh okay, so not necessarily the entire software was a whole, but just a few things that would probably be targeted more towards the Enterprise folks? Assuming you don't mean the issue boards for codebases, but rather the support requests. Probably why I hadn't noticed, thanks!
I am not sure of the specifics but their website says
GitLab's open core is published under an MIT open source license. The rest is source-available. Everyone can contribute to making GitLab better. View our transparent roadmap and propose features your project needs.
https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/
Ah got it. Looked at the open core link on there and like like all the features I use or care about are what's open source, so there are likely some other things out of scope for myself that aren't, and that's why I didn't notice. Thanks! 👍
