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by _asummers 3209 days ago
Besides aversion to any particular vendor in general, is there a reason you wouldn't want to use them?
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0xffff2 3209 days ago
I maintain a couple open source projects on Github that belong to the US Government. Getting them open sourced at all was hard enough. Convincing the powers that be to let me use Gitlab isn't practical.
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marcosdumay 3209 days ago
I assume the intersection of projects that need a no-budget solution for hosting an https site and projects that belong to the US government is zero.

Am I missing something?

I mean, yes, if you have practical problems that make gitlab harder to use, don't use it. No problem at all. But it is still a perfectly valid solution for the problem the GP was trying to solve.

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31h 3209 days ago
Open source means the project can be redistributed by any user. So any user, including yourself, can re-host the project on Gitlab.
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_asummers 3209 days ago
That's very interesting! I wonder if there's anyone at GitLab interested in becoming an approved vendor for the US government/DOD. I also wonder if the code.mil people are interested in getting the ball rolling on that from their end.
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vageli 3209 days ago
Couldn't you just fork it yourself on gitlab? Or any random person fork it?
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