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Hi, |
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we need to be careful with terms: |
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GitLab can be a "software", which is free and open-source. |
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But there's also a company named "GitLab Inc." following the open-core |
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business model providing mostly hosting services for GitLab software |
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(own instances on-premises, public cloud or SaaS but you can also pay |
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them to drive GitLab software development in your direction or implement |
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solutions you need). |
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This is exactly the same like the situation with GitHub Inc. The only |
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difference is that GitHub has no free _software suite_ like the GitLab |
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software. |
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So both companies are privately held and _can be sold_ _to anyone_ _at |
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anytime_ following US rules (because both companies are US companies) |
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like happened with GitHub Inc. which was recently acquired by Microsoft. |
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When Michał is talking about pull requests he was referring to GitHub |
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Inc.'s SaaS offering (i.e. the service you can reach via |
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https://github.com/) and the same equivalent is GitLab Inc.'s Saas |
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offering (i.e. the service you can reach via https://gitlab.com/). |
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So if people move from GitHub's SaaS offering to GitLab's SaaS offering |
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or back to Sourceforge for example (*SCNR*), it could make sense to |
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offer same/move support for these platforms. |
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Note: GitLab's recent announcement that GitLab Ultimate and Gold now |
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free for education and open source is special. While you can integrate |
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login with GitLab Inc's SaaS platform (i.e. to allow all the existing |
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https://gitlab.com users to use your issue tracker without the need to |
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create a new login for you instance), any on-premise solution |
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("Ultimate" plan for example) is an own walled instance (at least at the |
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beginning). So you can't just fork https://gitlab.gnome.org/ in you |
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https://gitlab.com/<username>/ account and do pull requests like you are |
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used to from GitHub (that's because most people have only dealt with |
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GitHub's SaaS service and not with any project using GitHub's on-premise |
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offer) via UI (yes, because it is git you can do it manually but no pull |
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requests). |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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