If your IP (and possible your browser) looks “suspicious” or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.

Screenshot: https://i.ibb.co/XsfcfHf/gitlab.png

      • thejevans
        10•5 months ago

        I would LOVE to switch to codeberg for work, but my work requires that all data be hosted in the US, so I recently pitched GitLab as an alternative to GitHub, even though it’s not perfect.

        • @ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
          9•5 months ago

          Wait. Wtf does it need to be US specifically? So the goverment has full access to the data or what?

          • @peasntanks@lemmy.ml
            2•5 months ago

            Export controls or legal compliance, most likely. Export controls because the code may be a protected technology, or compliance because the company doesn’t have gdpr or some other legal framework.

        • @wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
          5•5 months ago

          In which case, get your code off the net and use Forgejo to get your own instance, same as codeberg. If hosting location is a real issue, bring it home.

          • thejevans
            3•5 months ago

            That’s eventually the plan, but I expect that process to take on the order of a year, unfortunately.

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      25•5 months ago

      If you want people to contribute to your project, Github is by far the best. If you’re off Github, it reduces your visibility by a lot.

      • @bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
        23•5 months ago

        You can host your project anywhere you want, setup mirroring to github and drop a link in its description. So you’ll have github visibility and won’t depend on github. Addiitional repo backup is a bonus.

      • @evranch@lemmy.ca
        -1•5 months ago

        Even just for reporting issues, anyone who is capable of identifying a bug is likely to have a GitHub account. Not so for Gitlab or others.

        Then you’ve got seamless integration with Vscode as a bonus, it’s more like why would you not use GitHub unless you have a specific problem with them.

        • @ALostInquirer@lemm.ee
          2•5 months ago

          Then you’ve got seamless integration with Vscode as a bonus, it’s more like why would you not use GitHub unless you have a specific problem with them.

          Does GitHub still only permit one account? I remember looking into it awhile back and not wanting to get things mixed up between personal/professional arrangements and the one account policy put me off.

      • thejevans
        1•5 months ago

        Looks cool. Their hosted service is still in Alpha, so I doubt my work would go for it.

    • @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
      3•5 months ago

      I have no idea what everyone is on about.
      Host your own git repo. It’s trivial and built into git and you make every decision about it from the ground up.
      For example you don’t need to worry about registrations or what country it’s hosted in because the country it’s hosted in is your hard drive (or your company’s server rack).
      Then use whatever front-end you want and point it at that private repo.
      It’s only mildly more fiddly to set up and grant access, but it sure doesn’t ask you for a credit card and it sure doesn’t get scraped to train LLMs (unless you make it internet-facing and don’t protect it).
      If you want to stay close to the core experience but still have a decent interface, check out (heh) gitweb and git daemon. Though I wouldn’t mind if gitweb had some of the fancier features, like the “download as zip”/“git clone path/to/branch copy-to-clipboard” buttons.

        • @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
          2•5 months ago

          Git forge?
          Just git. Git command line.
          It’s about as trivial as setting up an Apache server.
          The anonymous users part is maybe two lines in a config file.
          The features are almost entirely part of the front-end, which is entirely up to each individual end-user.
          Do you have a web server? You’re already 95% of the way there. A workplace was mentioned in other replies, which likely means this infrastructure is already in place.

              • @Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                3•5 months ago

                The difficulty of sending patches or reporting issues to the Linux kernel is a feature for them, as it keeps less-experienced devs from wasting maintainer’s time with garbage requests. For most projects it’s a bug.

                • @uis@lemmy.world
                  1•5 months ago

                  Linus accepted patch from literal child. But to be fair it was documentation style patch from one of kernel dev’s kid.