[sebastiank123]

Hi sytse,

don't worry, they are just meaning us (the RhodeCode company which was co-founded by Marcin, the creator of RhodeCode, and me).

The Kallithea project members have their own thoughts how professional enterprise software should be developed, tested and maintained for a massive scale and they do not think that a company or full-time employees should be involved.

They forked our old 1.7.2 version from 2 year ago.

It is good that successful open source projects are forked, it increases diversity and choice for all the different user segments and generally drives innovation forward.

RhodeCode Enterprise 3, https://rhodecode.com, is a significant improvement to our old forked versions (in terms of performance, security, workflows and VCS support) and the user can select now if he wants to go more for a hobby open source fork project or a commercially backed, professional software product like Gitlab or RhodeCode.

I wish all the best to the Kallithea folks even if it seems that their focus lays more on talking about why the project exists instead of working in the project itself and it is interesting to see how strongly the development paths already diverged.

Best,

Sebastian

[kasabali]

> The Kallithea project members have their own thoughts how professional enterprise software should be developed, tested and maintained for a massive scale and they do not think that a company or full-time employees should be involved.

> They forked our old 1.7.2 version from 2 year ago.

You skipped to mention license violation claims: https://lwn.net/Articles/609709/

[ngoldbaum]

See also the discussion the last time this came up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9193241

[deng]

Sebastian,

while you are bashing this project because of too much talk, I had a look at the Rhodecode site and couldn't really gather any information about the project at all. Maybe I'm dense, but as far as I can see

- there is no description of supported workflows (branch/commit/patch-based, how do you track rebases/force pushes, etc.)

- there is no link to actual documentation

- there is no demo

- and worst of all: your "Pricing" section does not mention any actual prices.

I know I can directly download your software and try myself, but this is something I only do when I'm confident your software could at least theoretically work for our setup and is also affordable.

[sytse]

Hi Sebastian, thanks for the response, it makes a lot of sense that the comment referred to RhodeCode and not GitLab. I feel stupid for thinking otherwise, rtz12 is right that I'm a bit GitLab obsessed.