This page is out of date. There was a lengthy discussion about those alternatives and (to simplify) Pagure won in the initial round in 2016, but a survey was conducted in 2017 and the final decision is not yet made. A spring is taking place in 2017 to push this effort forward as well, see Sprints/2017/Alioth.
This page is to track progress on next version of git.debian.org. Gitlab requirements are tracked here.
The existing services for VCS repositories are:
domain |
software |
comments |
git.debian.org |
cgit (web view) + fusionforge (management) |
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ubergit.debian.org (aka git2) |
custom |
DSA only, parts mirrored to git.d.o |
dgit.debian.org |
cgit (web view) + dgit |
packages only |
gitolite.debian.net |
gitolite |
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Options are gitolite and gitlab. The main advantage of gitolite is simplicity, and main advantage of gitlab is merge requests (making it easy to contribute). GitLab's review page.
"Gitolite is a very lightweight way to manage access to a set of Git repositories to several users, identified by their public SSH key. It is a decently elegant solution to host Git repositories where you don't want to set up system accounts; easy to set up by non-root users even on shared server settings. But it's quite far from what Gitlab or Alioth offer — It is not a full project tracking/management system." - Gunnar Wolf
Features |
gitolite |
gitlab |
gogs |
gitblit |
Notes |
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Code Complexity |
Simple (Perl) |
Complex (Ruby) |
Medium (go) |
Medium (java) |
(python) |
(python) |
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Merge Requests |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (optional) |
Yes |
Yes |
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GitHub-like UI |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
? |
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Code review |
No |
Yes |
No |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
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JavaScript only |
No |
Yes |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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VCS support |
Only git |
Only git |
Only git |
Only git |
Only git |
Mercurial and Git |
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License |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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Open core |
? |
Yes |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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