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by zanny 3324 days ago
Gnome already discounted Gitlab Enterprise as an option because its proprietary.

It is very hypocritical to promote free software while using proprietary software that you got special privilege for on the backend. KDE had the same line of thought when they chose Phabricator - if features like LDAP weren't locked behind Gitlab EE they would have used that, but they were only considering freedom respecting options, because they are communities of hackers that want access to improve their tools.
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sytse 3324 days ago
What kind of LDAP functionality did KDE want? LDAP login is in GitLab CE (open source) but LDAP group sync is in GitLab Enterprise Edition (proprietary).

I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092182 but I can't find LDAP references in any of the linked emails.

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