Lots of layoffs (“re-evaluating our operational footprint”) and switching to “agentic” processes. Target user is AI.
Anyone still hosting Gitlab?
We are uniquely positioned to not only participate, but to lead in our category where the TAM is exploding at a step function rate.
They endlessly tooted their horn about their diversity and fully remote operations. So this is pretty rich.
“This isn’t cost cutting” Oh, fuck off. This is trimming the fat before they try to look for a buyer again.
GitLab
Sucks, I manage GitLab in our company and it’s been difficult to maintain already without the vibe coded shit updates that break everything. I’ll need to see what are our options our but my assumption is that there aren’t any.
Forgeo?
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.
Run gitea on a small box.
Selfhost
Ugh, but I don’t want to buy a Mac mini for those CI builds
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.
I just selfhost bare git repos on an ssh server
That’s a perfectly viable approach for users who aren’t interested in forge tooling and just need git push/pull capability.
Thank you!
Gitlab CEO - 16 years in Microsoft, Gitlab CTO - 13 years in Microsoft
Can we say Microsoft Gitlab ?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
Gitlab isn’t owned or controlled by Microsoft
“Software will be built by machines, directed by people.”
Oh my lord. Is this a delayed April Fools post?
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?
Just like everyone has already done I’d also recommend Codeberg/Forgejo👌
Is every mother fucker just going bat shit insane this year? Goddamn it.
Idiotic. Use codeberg.
MacOS CI jobs?
Gitlab deleted ☢️ Selfhosting ♻️
They once were a promising alternative to MS GitHub but now they’re going down the same route.
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.
FWIW Forgejo with Woodpecker CI is 👌 - a lot more like gitlab ci without the bullshit. It’s still basic by comparison though. I don’t think it supports templates
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
My condolences.
