Hi,
Anything that encourages diversity should be encouraged too. Of course
there is a balance to be found between diversity and fragmentation and
we're a small community, but even trying different Git front ends
without going to the same (monopolistic?) provider is healthy.
For a critical perspective on GitHub and how it affects "open source" I
recommend:
https://medium.com/@nayafia/we-re-in-a-brave-new-post-open-source-world-56ef46d152a3#.8owyyk8dk
(there are a lot of good comments via hypothes.is )
Cheers,
Offray
On 20/10/16 08:39, Dimitris Chloupis wrote:
One big factor for me has been also repo size , because I make games
and as you can imagine I need a lot of space.
Bit bucket has a limit of 2GB per repo while GitLab has a limit of
10GB, so for me GitLab is far better choice.
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 at 16:31, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
bitbucket offers infinite private repos too, if you do not want to
install a server by your own.
Esteban
On 20 Oct 2016, at 14:47, Dimitris Chloupis
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have been looking for an alternative to Github to host my
private repos, Github provides only 1 private repo and for more
you have to pay. So I found this.
https://gitlab.com/
Gitlab has all the features of Github with additional advantages
that is completely free and you can have as many private repos as
you want. Also in terms of space , its unlimited with a limit of
10 GB per repo which makes it an excellent choice for binary
files. You can have unlimited repos (the hard limit is at 100.000
repos per user which you wont reach any time soon )
A recent advantage that I discovered is that like Github , Gitlab
allows you to host your own website via Gitlab pages
https://pages.gitlab.io/
The cool thing about this is that it comes with CI , which is
highly configurable which means you can even make it work with
Pillar. The website part can mix with existing code, meaning you
can keep on the same repo the code of your pharo projects and
documentation in form of website. Gitlab pages support a wide
variety of static website generators , the on the interests me is
gitbook
https://www.gitbook.com/
Gitbook is interesting because it comes with its own Editor you
can download as a native client that handles the writing of the
book / documentation and pushing and committing to the repo
https://www.gitbook.com/editor
Both Gitlab and Gitbook are free software that means they can be
installed in any Pharo server and customised to whatever you want
I made an example here.
https://gitlab.com/Kilon/testbook
The gitbook documentation is hosted in the pages branch which is
a nice clean way to isolate documentation from project's code but
also you could alternative have everything in master and put
documentation in a doc folder. You can fine tune such setup with
the corresponding yaml setup file as can see here
https://gitlab.com/Kilon/testbook/blob/pages/.gitlab-ci.yml
The website generated by this repo can be viewed here
https://kilon.gitlab.io/testbook/
obviously you can also add anything that is in HTML/JS which make
this ideal for blog, main websites, application frontends and
pretty much everything you can imagine and because GitLab allows
for unlimited amount of repos you can have unlimited amount of
websites.
Have fun :)
