[kparaju]

I've had to compare the two. At the current state, Stash is better than GitLab in almost all ways. Better UI, more features and other small things that make a big difference (e.g. repo sync).

GitLab, on the other hand, has two advantages over Stash. Firstly it's open source (+free). Secondly and most importantly, GitLab is under active development and there is a new release with reasonable amount of content every month.

I haven't installed Stash, but for what it's worth GitLab installation and upgrades have been really straightforward.

[taspeotis]

    At the current state, Stash is better than GitLab 

Yes.

    GitLab, on the other hand, has two advantages over Stash ... GitLab is under active development and there is a new release with reasonable amount of content every month.

No.

Stash 2.9 was just released [1] about seven weeks after Stash 2.8 [2] about seven weeks after Stash 2.7 [3].

[1] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.9+rel...

[2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.8+rel...

[3] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Stash+2.7+rel...

[girvo]

Stash isn't open source, though.

[taspeotis]

Hence the ellipsis...

[modoc]

I was trying out GitLab EE and ran into some install issues on RHEL5 (which were solvable - http://www.digitalsanctuary.com/tech-blog/general/installing... ). However even after a couple days I was unable to get the LDAP integration and LDAP group permissions to work correctly. GitLab support wasn't able to solve it for me, so I tried Stash. 30 minutes later, up and running the way I wanted it.

[sytse]

Hi Modoc, GitLab.com co-founder here. I'm sorry to hear you GitLab.com support did not solve your problem to your satisfaction. Supporting our customers is our main priority. Feel free to email me at [e-mail] if you want to give us feedback about what happend.