[Users] Microsoft is acquiring GitHub! Byebye Github!

[David Sommerseth]

On 04/06/18 16:14, Barry de Graaff wrote:
> I was thinking Gitlab, but I already run into the first issue, in that
> it does not send me the confirmation mail to activate my account.
> 
> So then maybe bitbucket comes to mind...

I've been using GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket in various settings.  For me, I
prefer GitLab.

I value GitLabs friendliness towards FOSS, it is fairly similar feature wise
to GitHub and I have generally very few complaints here.  And it should be
possible to migrate out of GitLabs hosted service more easily, especially if
aiming for a self-hosted (or another externally hosted) GitLab install base.
So there lock-in is quite limited.

Bitbucket is the worst one to me.  It is overly complicated, slow, and when
bringing in other Atlassian products, you'll notice their integration with
Bitbucket is a second thought.  For example, I'm having different username for
bitbucket, Jira and Confluence - because my preferred username was taken on
some of them.  And their permissions management is a perfect example of how
NOT to do it.  You click and hope you did it correct.


Another option I've heard popping up quite regularly these last days is
https://gitea.io/en-US/   I don't know much about it, and it seems to be only
a self-hosted solution.


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Touitou" <david at network-studio.com>
> To: "Barry de Graaff" <info at barrydegraaff.tk>
> Cc: users at lists.zetalliance.org
> Sent: Monday, June 4, 2018 4:13:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Microsoft is acquiring GitHub! Byebye Github!
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> so at some point I expect to move the Zeta Alliance
>> away from Github.
> 
> GitLab? 
> 
> ? Something else?
> 
> David
>