I'm patiently waiting for you all to decide to focus your main interest on makin...

sytse · on Feb 13, 2016

Thanks for your question! We are trying to make GitLab.com the best place to host open source projects, see https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/

We do not think that paying for hosting itself makes sense, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/#why-gitlab-com-will-be-...

Instead of giving cash to use I would encourage people to move their projects and contribute by adding the features they need or helping our people, see https://about.gitlab.com/about/#donations

phillc73 · on Feb 13, 2016

A bit late responding to this thread, due to sleep.

I recently started to mirror my repositories between GitHub and GitLab (they're just really small R packages).

It was very simple to update my local git config file so that "git push origin master" now pushes changes to both GitHub and GitLab.

I've also made it clear in the README how to install from GitLab.

Three minor annoyances:

* GitLab doesn't support Rmarkdown in .Rmd files, so my vignettes look great on GitHub, but not GitLab.

* I wanted to start an R Group (and did so), where people could share their R related projects all in one place. Unfortunately, as the projects are only shared with the group, they don't display when publically looking at the group if not signed in.The group image is also broken. [0]

* Relative links don't quite work the same, so some README links still only point to GitHub, as they were broken on the GitLab mirror. (Might just be user error!)

I also have a self-hosted installation running for a couple of private projects. It's on a small DO instance and does thrash resources a little, but generally works fine for two developers.

Thanks for such a useful product!

[0] https://gitlab.com/groups/rstats

sytse · on Feb 13, 2016

Thanks for using GitLab and for your feedback.

1. GitLab uses the awesome Rouge library to do syntax highlighting, this does support R https://github.com/jneen/rouge/blob/master/lib/rouge/lexers/... but apparently Rmarkdown is broken. I hope someone will contribute this to Rouge.

2. If you want to display the projects publically please make them public. If I misunderstood please let me know.

3. Please email [email protected] about the broken group image and reference this comment. I'm sorry it is not working.

4. Relative links took a lot of work but I didn't hear any complains in the last few months. If it is not user error please open an issue.

5. If you self-hosted installation thrashes consider switching to the Omnibus packages (if you haven't done so already) and increasing memory. For memory requirements please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...

Thanks again for your comment.

carussell · on Feb 13, 2016

> https://gitlab.com/groups/rstats

I filed a bug: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/541

sytse · on Feb 13, 2016

Thanks!

fanf2 · on Feb 14, 2016

One thing that more recent code hosting sites miss out is mailing list hosting, for less structured discussions between users and developers, or for providing a private group contact address for the developers.

sytse · on Feb 16, 2016

Totally agree, would love to see this get added to GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4272