Forgot to mention the obvious: the rationale for the below is my desire to unchain from GitHub.
On 07/04/17 10:26, Marco van Zwetselaar wrote: > On 06/04/17 12:53, Pjotr Prins wrote: >> ** Going off github > I've been running GitLab self-hosted since December and find it a fine > alternative. > > Their installation instructions try hard to scare you away from > self-hosting and installation from source, but I think that's more to > keep non-sysadmins from shooting themselves in the foot than it is to do > with inherent complexity. > > A guix package[1] of course would be the bee's knees. :) > > GitLab's OAuth2 authentication and GitHub (and other) import facilities > ease integration with those clinging to their GitHub or other 'social' > accounts. > > Zwets > > [1] I've been dying to make one as I'm stuck at GitLab 8.14 due to > version dependencies in 8.15+ that aren't in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. My > servers run Ubuntu LTS, with Guix for out-of-distro packages. I lack > the time and guixperience to do this right now but will gladly share > notes and help out if someone takes this on. > >
