Lots of layoffs (“re-evaluating our operational footprint”) and switching to “agentic” processes. Target user is AI.
Anyone still hosting Gitlab?
lol I just created my gitlab account today to get away from github and after reading this the account has been scheduled for deletion and now I have a new account with Codeberg. When are these dipshits going to learn that we don’t want AI in our workflows? I am capable of breaking things on my own, but at least when I break things I will learn from it.
Selfhost
Yeah I could do that, I have never done it before though which is why I was looking for another remote to use. Are there any good guides/tools out there you would recommend?
Check out forgejo self hosting gitlab is overkill.
Thank you!
Gitlab CEO - 16 years in Microsoft, Gitlab CTO - 13 years in Microsoft
Can we say Microsoft Gitlab ?Gitlab isn’t owned or controlled by Microsoft
I hope not: we’re migrating from Gitlab to GitHub. I was never a fan because of the lack of enterprise features in GitHub (folders, with more granularity of settings and permissions, scalable usability), and certainly GitLab CI was extremely limited but wtf
I always love to see companies do this with a semi open source product with investors
The code gets closed, a small clump of users split off, make their own version with beet and hookers, and soon the vast majority of the users following because the real open source one is so awesome
That was jellyfin’s story, but this is a variation on that and I’ve seen this story many times now
Bye bye gitlab,rest in pieces
with beet and hookers
I work on Jellyfin, but don’t like beets. Do I need to fork again?
“Software will be built by machines, directed by people.”
Oh my lord. Is this a delayed April Fools post?
Just like everyone has already done I’d also recommend Codeberg/Forgejo👌
Gitlab deleted ☢️ Selfhosting ♻️
Idiotic. Use codeberg.
Is every mother fucker just going bat shit insane this year? Goddamn it.
Still hosting gitlab.
The CI on forgejo is, unfortunately, nowhere near as good.
Given how long gitlab has been struggling to fix basic bugs and instead creeping into features - hello-oo bloated and slow vscode-like web editor and non-ephemeral runner management - I’m not sure they have any staff left to let go. But it’s nice they found an excuse to shed their remaining talent and avoid complete stock devaluation.
The planning is happening openly, including a voluntary separation window.
“We don’t understand how the Dead Sea Effect works, and we want to super-size the damage.”. Okay. Bill.
The only upside I see is their stock has fallen since this announcement. Perhaps the market is finally getting that companies pushing AI isn’t a universal good thing?
For fucks sake… Is Sourcehut ok for private projects?
I’ve also been using sourcehut for a few things for a number of years. Haven’t had any trouble. You do need to pay a small amount per month for an account, but I don’t mind throwing a few bucks to support an indie project like tbis.
I have been using sourcehut for mercurial private projects for about half a year without any issues. Also have some a couple of public repos which I develop in Mercurial and then mirror to Codeberg. Only issue I find with sourcehut is that they don’t produce files for users to download. So, if someone wanted something from your repo and they don’t have git / mercurial they would be unable to get the files.
Ouch. My company was just about to start moving over to GitLab off of Atlassian.
That makes sense, since Gitlab seems to be trying to challenge Atlassian. In who manages to make worse software…
We use atlassian at my job and I hate it
I like that I can read this as you stating you use Atlassian yet hate Gitlab, and the statement still works either way 😅
I always avoided gitlab as much as possible tbh because of how awful the interface is
also I just want to add that we just moved to on cloud atlassian and it is even worse
I don’t think that they’ve used enough buzzwords.
Increased buzzword utilization is part of their go forward strategy that begins implementation in Q3 pending socialization of relevant KPI. obviously.
Synergizing good EQ through the single pane of glass.
- Software will be built by machines, directed by people.
- The agentic era multiplies demand for software. As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.
objectively insane.
Governance built into the core.
I still believe that’s not possible, but that’s only my opinion.
As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.
This part actually makes sense. Plenty of software doesn’t get written because it’s just easier or cheaper to do without it. It’s why BPM tools exist. Simplify the coding process and you can solve problems more cheaply.
I also think this will kill BPM tools. Why use BPM tooling when creating a real app is just as easy and more customizable?
I see that requires some more explaining my thinking:
There is only demand and supply.
Previously, we had “high demand” and “limited supply” which is what lead to software dev roles being a very well paid job in silicon valley and some other places.
Now, the promise of AI, making software by itself or increasing productivity, if true, mean that supply increases. That makes software cheaper. Theoretically.
But that’s the supply side.
What you’re talking about is also a “I have so much supply, I can now afford to do projects and software I could not do before, because my time, budget, etc. was limited.” But you already had the idea and the “demand” however low priority, already existed.
What isn’t happening, is that some company sits down and suddenly decides that they need more software than they thought they needed. Even the bit that is “replacing real humans” is replacing humans. It’s meeting a demand that was already there in a new way.
Using a metaphor / example, we currently, as humanity, manage to feed ourselves. Or let’s pretend that we do and nobody is starving. Someone claiming that “the demand for food is going to go up” is talking nonsense. They can say that demand for “cheese” or “meat” or “potatoes” will go up. But not food, because that market is already saturated. Because we’re not starving.
Yes, the fact that the demand is there and that the supply gets cheaper will mean that more software will be produced.
But not because of increased demand. AI doesn’t create it’s own demand.
…at least that’s my thought process and why I wrote what I wrote in the original comment.
I see what you’re saying. That makes sense. It’s an overloaded term.
In economic terms, a price drop would result in an “increase in demand”. Because current demand is the amount request “at current price”.
And that’s why it’s always talked about in relation to demand curves. Or how much demand there is at many theoretical.prices.
They once were a promising alternative to MS GitHub but now they’re going down the same route.
