If it could use Heroku as backends for repos, now that would probably break HK's freemium model.
The other point is that bitbucket has unlimited private repos for free and github has unlimited public ones for free. In a business setting, I can't see the time and cost of maintaining code services except as a backup, or if you are Goldman Sachs imprisoning your ex-employees or a defense contractor working on missiles. (Setting up giolite + active directory + Crowd + JIRA + FishEye was a chore I'd rather not repeat.)
It looks a little nicer than gitlab, but has anyone had recent experience with gitlab, redmine or github enterprise?
Ultimately though, github could threaten C&D against the authors if it were to take off because it's such a design ripoff. Although it has almost no commercial viability it's neat for its own sake.
> Setting up giolite + active directory + Crowd + JIRA + FishEye was a chore I'd rather not repeat.
For anyone tackling this today for a small-medium team: set up JIRA first, point Stash at JIRA, done. JIRA can act as a user management server for the other Atlassian products.
We went somewhere like Jira + Confluence + Fisheye before I came in.
After that we slowly moved to git and went Jira + Confluence + Stash then + Bamboo.
Then I started work on an LDAP system and we've got Jira+Confluence+Stash+Bamboo all tied into LDAP for users and permissions (and the computers in the office all tie in to LDAP too).
I think we're using OpenLDAP instead of AD, but it works pretty decently for user maangement.
Actually the name is very similar to BitBucket and it was used by the BitBucket team when they started to support Git. I wonder if the author is playing on the confusion?
We use Gitlab for about 30 people. The last versions are really neat. The UX is perhaps better with Github, but Gitlab is easier to learn and use, especially for small organisations.
I am always reluctant to use "clones" like gitbucket... If the usage is not the same, why making a clone? Indeed, it is always easier to copy a brand but is it worthwhile?
I think it says why, right in the first sentence: "…the easily installable Github clone…" (emphasis mine).
I love Gitlab and have a small installation (only 4 users). It's an wonderful github clone and it makes me happy when I use it.
However… it's a maintenance nightmare. I've never encountered a more obtuse and maintenance hostile app. I think maybe Rails apps just aren't meant to be distributed and run out in the wild. They are finicky and upgrading is a nightmare.
Compare that against, say, Wordpress, which is downright trivial to maintain. And it's darn near invisible if you're willing to sacrifice security for their in-browser updates.
Thanks for mentioning GitLab Cyndll! I hope you like the UI update in 6.5 and let us know if there is anything else we can improve. I'm a GitLab.com co-founder.
You currently offer Gitlab cloud for free : if you could have a flat storage-based fee model, and throw in some backups, that could be a great way to monetize.
alternatively, would love it if you could partner with one of the smaller git providers - like RepositoryHosting or XP-Dev.
If it could use Heroku as backends for repos, now that would probably break HK's freemium model.
The other point is that bitbucket has unlimited private repos for free and github has unlimited public ones for free. In a business setting, I can't see the time and cost of maintaining code services except as a backup, or if you are Goldman Sachs imprisoning your ex-employees or a defense contractor working on missiles. (Setting up giolite + active directory + Crowd + JIRA + FishEye was a chore I'd rather not repeat.)
It looks a little nicer than gitlab, but has anyone had recent experience with gitlab, redmine or github enterprise?
Ultimately though, github could threaten C&D against the authors if it were to take off because it's such a design ripoff. Although it has almost no commercial viability it's neat for its own sake.