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> > Another option that looks nice is GitLab. |
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> How does it work? The screenshots look exactly like github. |
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Maybe, I can summarize it up a bit: |
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- GitLab is a Ruby-On-Rails Application |
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=> Requires very few setup on a gentoo system: ruby, a webserver and a mysql |
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or postgresl database and redis. Some gems. That's it mostly. |
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- It makes use of a lot of the FOSS-Code which was written by GitHub. |
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- Itself is licensed under the MIT-License. |
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- It used to be based around the gitolite shell, but nowadays has it's own |
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shell to implement access restrictions on the managed repositories. |
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- Repositories can be private (to users or teams) or public with write-access |
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granted to individuals or teams. |
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=> Up to here, it's just a way to manage multiple git repositories via http |
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and access them via git://, ssh://, http:// and https:// |
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It can be used just the same way a pure gitolite installation can be used. |
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(Which by the way is true for any repository on github as well). |
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On top of that: |
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- It supports "Merge Requests", which are almost the same as PRs on Github, |
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which allows user contributions to be reviewed quite easily. |
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- It can trigger web-hooks in a similar way to github. |
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It has some other nice features - but I personally believe they are not very |
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relevant to gentoo: |
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- Issue tracking per git repository |
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- Wiki per git repository |
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I am running an instance of gitlab for some of my private projects. The |
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instance is accessed from roughly a dozen scripts and me. I run it including |
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it's database (aside to some other services) on a VServer, which has 1 CPU |
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assigned to it and 1 gigabyte of ram. Accessing it never appeared any slower |
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to me than accessing github (even given that low hardware). Though, i have no |
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data on how it scales to bigger environments. |
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Updates to it are release on a once-per-month basis. Most of the time they are |
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quite straight forward and installed in less than 5 minutes. |
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The overall configure on the above mentioned hardware took me roughly 2 hours |
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(sql, nginx, ruby etc being already emerged). This is mostly due to the fact |
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gitlab's author mainly targets ubuntu. But it wasn't very hard to adapt the |
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instructions to Gentoo w/ OpenRC. |
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Hopefully these datapoints help to fill up some gaps :-) |
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Sascha |
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