Gitlab will no longer be free! Any good, free, opensource alternative to GITLAB ?

[openbsd98324]

Hello

End of Gitlab for many of us.

Any good, free, opensource alternative to GITLAB ?

Most of them are oriented business, like github, and what it happened conquered by Microsoft.

 

[Null]

Download and install GitLab

Download, install and maintain your own GitLab instance with various installation packages and downloads for Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud and more.

about.gitlab.com

 

[Askarus]

Does that mean I must migrate all the code I've hosted on GitLab to somewhere else?
I always preferred GitLab over GitHub.
That'd be a huge shame.

I don't need all that CI/CD stuff. Just a place to upload my code and maybe a Wiki.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

Just integrate your stuff into the Linux kernel and get it upstreamed, then it'll sit in git.kernel.org.

 

[levi]

There's also the GNU savannah, unless you're allergic to Stallman I guess.

 

[ElPoco]

It's still free software. And the hosting is still costless. They just limit computing time because crypto-miners are abusing it.
Nearly every service that offers "free computing time" are facing the same problem

 

[netcat]

Incidentally I was thinking a decentralised repo might be cool and thought of a Blockchain. Of course I was thinking of one that does not use PoW.

 

[Askarus]

Blockchain, AI and Cloud are the buzzwords of today.
They introduce more problems than they solve.

See ElPoco's post.

 

[netcat]

I agree... but doesn't a decentralised repo seem natural for such collaborative open source projects? Maybe the singular repo owner / gatekeeper model isn't the best for ensuring code is quality and not riddled with exploits.

 

[ElPoco]

While a decentralised repo could be interesting, there's no reason to use blockchain for this. Git already has everything needed to work in a decentralised way. There could be problems, but Blockchain wouldn't solve any of them.

 

[netcat]

You're egging me on because you know i'm against blockchains. By decentralized I mean no-owner not global dev team. So like, no single entity can take the code down.

 

[Askarus]

Maybe something like peer tube but for git?

 

[Confuzzled]

GitHub, Gitlab - other possible choices:

1) Self-host GitLab
2) Codeberg (Gitea)
3) sourcehut ( sr.ht )
4) Savannah
There are other possibilites. Search for source code repository.