GitLab acquires Gitorious

Posted Mar 4, 2015 8:52 UTC (Wed) by fishface60 (subscriber, #88700)
In reply to: GitLab acquires Gitorious by dakas
Parent article: GitLab acquires Gitorious

It's likely to be a marketing thing.
The open source GitLab has less functionality than GitLab enterprise, and they're using the free project hosting as promotion for their service, so they're going to promote the enterprise version, since that's what they want you to buy and it has more flashy features to show off.

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GitLab acquires Gitorious

Posted Mar 4, 2015 22:38 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

We're setting up the Community edition here and it's not like the CE is hobbled in any way (I haven't noticed much missing at least). Then again, we're a FOSS-y company, so maybe we just don't care about the Enterprise frosting features/use cases.

GitLab acquires Gitorious

Posted Mar 4, 2015 22:56 UTC (Wed) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link] (1 responses)

git annex support exists only in the proprietary version, similar with support for git hooks.

GitLab acquires Gitorious

Posted Mar 4, 2015 23:29 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Well, we're using git hooks as well, but we are doing it by basically making the merge button inert (only select few have Master permissions; mainly the release team(s)). Instead, we have a bot which is controlled using commands (similar to bors for Rust) which does checks and the actual merge (with smarts to do submodule merging properly). As for git hooks we actually are using server-side, we have one which is implemented globally to deny *all* new branches on the main repos (to enforce a fork->merge request workflow).

Annex support would be NTH for our testing data, but getting all users to have git annex is the main hurdle there (we would need a bot to sync the data down and publish it somewhere *anyways* since git-annex on Windows is a PITA last I checked). The main hurdle for me implementing git-annex support if it came to that would be the fact that my Ruby skills are quite awful (I've set it up at home with gitolite already).

GitLab acquires Gitorious

Posted Mar 7, 2015 22:18 UTC (Sat) by murukesh (subscriber, #97031) [Link]

Proper support for LDAP groups is only present in the Enterprise version. That's the original reason why I turned to Gitorious, but after considerable fighting to get it install right on Ubuntu (not via the outdated docker image they had), I realised that Gitorious didn't support posixGroups LDAP groups (it needed memberOf). So skipped the bother and went to Gitlab CE.