Expect more enshittification coming your way.

  • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
    95·
    5 months ago

    Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.

    But yeah, I don’t foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      24·
      5 months ago

      I don’t know, seems like being owned by Google would be worse. They kill stuff left and right.

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
        18·
        5 months ago

        But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.

        Google’s involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.

        • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          Partially owned gives room for the product to stay alive. It being fully owned by Google makes it subject to being killed.

          • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            I guess responses like yours is the reason the headline didn’t mention the actual party gitlab is in talks with. People just love to have their villain.

            Ignore the headline. Read the article. Gitlab is not about to sell to Google. They are about to sell to Datadog.

            • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              Selling to Datadog isn’t a guarantee. The most important detail is that they’re exploring a sale, and other companies are probably going to be interested.

    • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Oh, neat, DataDog. So if you add a new label to a repo your monthly bill would rocket to the moon.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I feel this so much. We evaluated them at work, and while they did pretty much exactly what we wanted, we weren’t willing to pay their fees.

  • jherazob@fedia.io
    48·
    5 months ago

    This worries me, i can see the new owners killing the Community edition and/or enshittifying the software to uselessness. Do we have a FOSS alternative that does the whole CI/CD pipeline too?

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      Codeberg, but you have to manually apply for the CI/CD part. Also, Codeberg only allows you to host FOSS projects.

    • Moin@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      SourceHut is worth checking out. It leans towards minimal aesthetics, but is actually very functional. Granted, the workflow is quite different than other VCS providers, but you may grow into it, like I have :)

      • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        SourceHut burns my eyes. Has Drew (or someone to whom he has delegated such things) announced a dark mode yet?

        • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Dark Reader browser extension or just a userstyle. For me, Dark Reader works very well for sourcehut.

          • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            Thanks, but I know browser extensions exist. I was just curious whether it’s going to be supported natively.

        • Moin@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          BTW, SourceHut now automatically switches to light/dark mode based on your OS settings.

          Unless I made a mistake checking it the last time, it’s like Drew saw your comment and took it personally xD

          • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Haha… Maybe he keeps tabs on the fediverse?

            It doesn’t work with Resist Fingerprinting mode (which hides OS settings), and doesn’t have a manual toggle that I can see, but does now have a @media(prefers-color-scheme:dark) clause in its CSS. That’s a step in the right direction. :)

            Thanks for the tip!

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    5 months ago

    I don’t think tech people understand how bad it is that Microsoft owns GitHub.

    GitLab is one of the few places people could go if GitHub enshittifies too much. Google’s stake in it (or full ownership of it) would probably be a good thing, because it would be seen as an important strategic hedge against Microsoft. If it’s bought by a smaller player, I can see GitHub squeezing it into irrelevance.

    • AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com
      3·
      5 months ago

      I’ve been using raw Git for a while now. Glad I switched from GitHub for personal projects.

      Can’t share worth a shit that way, but 90% of my code is highly specific, personal scripts that I just want to maintain history and notes for. And a book I’m writing.

      • BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.infoEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        The moment I realized that “SSH login” on hosted git forges like GitHub literally just means “there’s a folder on a computer that you’re connecting to over SSH” was crazy to me. I realized that there’s no need to selfhost gitlab, gitea, forgejo. Just put a folder on user@host in the repos folder, then set the origin url to user@host:~/repos/myrepo

        I think there may be some init commands needed before, like git init --bare or something

      • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, I use personal git repos for most things. But, it’s not as convenient if you want to collaborate on something, or if you want to access features like building docker images and having them put into a repo. There’s definitely a need for a place for open-source and free software projects to live. And, I personally don’t want them on a platform owned by Microsoft.

  • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    Let’s explore the scenarios

    Scenario 1: GitLab is acquired by Google

    Scenario 2: GitLab is acquired by Apple

    Scenario 3: GitLab is acquired by a State government

    Scenario 4: Gitlab is acquired by Amazon

    Scenario 5: Gitlab is acquired by the Linux Foundation

    Scenario 6: Gitlab is acquired by the Federal Government

    Scenario 7: Gitlab is acquired by IBM