[rglullis]

No one is asking you to host it yourself. Gitlab is open source and they provide the service as well for those that don't want to manage it.

[wilsonnb]

Gitlab CE is open source, but Gitlab EE is not. EE does have some features that CE is lacking.

[davidcuddeback]

> Gitlab is open source and they provide the service as well for those that don't want to manage it.

Not all of the features you would use on the hosted gitlab.com are available in the open-source edition. Those are really two different products: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-hosted/feature-compari....