[sf-lug] News that Microsoft Bought GitHub

[aaronco36]

Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>  wrote at [01]:

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It's subsequently been pointed out to me that the GitLab codebase is a 
Ruby on Rails Webapp, which means it will have severe scalability limits 
and require a huge amount of RAM just to get off the ground.  (I was 
mislead by the Wikipedia page mentioning only that the codebase is in Ruby 
with a small amount of Go, but Rails is nowhere mentioned.)

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Thanks for that feedback and insight!


Besides GitLab drawbacks such as these, there are of course Microsoft 
advocates/apologists who have and will bring out _other_ drawbacks on 
GitLab and throw actual but discrete FUD on those considering the vast 
migration currently happening from GitHub to GitLab.
After the typically requisite but brief caveat from one such Microsoft 
advocate (who btw still uses MS-Windows) of "I don't want to get into an 
argument about this as I am not exactly a fan of Microsoft but... " that 
same advocate is consistently downplaying the hazards of the GitHub 
acquisition in at least the half-dozen mailing-list postings in references 
[02] through [07] from today.

FUD aside, GitLab's YouTube video 'Migrating from GitHub to GitLab' linked 
in reference [08] is currently more than *twice* as popular than today's 
Microsoft's explanation YouTube video 'Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella' Linked 
In reference [09]. As I write this, GitLab has available importing 
instructions from GitHub to GitLab at reference [10] and GitHub has 
account deletion instructions at reference [11].

Perhaps someone will put out a YouTube video as excellent as Scott 
Chacon's popular 'Introduction to Git' at reference [12], but this time 
for GitLab or for other viable code-repository and management platforms?

-A

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References
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[01]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q2/013264.html

[02]https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180604.130704.a0a54401.en.html

[03]https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180604.153347.757676ff.en.html

[04]https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180604.164015.d55d2dad.en.html

[05]https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180604.164654.a5f40a9c.en.html

[06]https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180604.181042.1222d598.en.html

[07]https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180604.180432.d24d8fda.en.html

[08]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI

[09]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m164XggdRGA

[10]https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html

[11]https://help.github.com/articles/deleting-your-user-account/

[12]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDR433b0HJY

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