Essential Guide: GitLab - Comprehensive Guide

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GitLab (available in multiple versions but primarily Community Edition and Enterprise Edition) is a software forge that offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis.

GitLab Community Edition is an open source project that provides many of the features of GitHub. You install it on your own server or pay a service provider to do it for you. GitLab also includes GitLab Pages, a service to build and host static websites.

GitLab.com is a hosted version of GitLab Enterprise Edition (proprietary). Also offers enterprise support and repository hosting.

IndieWeb Friendly

GitLab.com supports the following IndieWeb building blocks:

rel=me on user profiles on links to your own site, e.g. see https://gitlab.com/Mikaela which has a rel=me link to https://mikaela.info/

IndieWiki Examples

Dr. Matt Lee has been a longtime GitLab user (for Libre.fm) and a GitLab CE and EE administrator.

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Advocacy

Advocacy to GitLab to adopt building blocks towards becoming more IndieWeb friendly:

2016-05-02 Ben Roberts for Webmention: “... Send a webmention with a URL where you can fetch the output of request-pull. ...” (more discussion in thread)

Articles

Particularly those by or of interest to IndieWeb participants

2018-07-16 Dr. Matt Lee: Opinion: GitHub vs GitLab (archived)

Why you might want to use an open source project like GitLab community edition for your open source project

2014-04-28 Gar: Time for gitlab (archived)

Helpful discussion of setting up GitLab with Docker and subsequent memory issues. Concludes "After this experience it is apparent that neither gitlab nor docker is really ready for primetime."

Issues

Loss of data (on GitLab.com)

We also lost some production data that we were eventually unable to recover. Specifically, we lost modifications to database data such as projects, comments, user accounts, issues and snippets, that took place between 17:20 and 00:00 UTC on January 31. Our best estimate is that it affected roughly 5,000 projects, 5,000 comments and 700 new user accounts.

2017-02-10 GitLab: Postmortem of database outage of January 31 (GitLab.com, not GitLab Community Edition) (archived)

We have pages for other software forges on the wiki.

Open Source IndieWeb related projects and tools
Topics	Why open source? • How to open source a project • Open for contributions • IndieWeb Principles • Package managers for various languages and systems
PHP (See LAMP)	b2evolution • CASSIS • Known • Falcon (portions) • HamsterCMS • p3k (portions) • stapibas • dobrado • Grav • Miniflux-legacy • ProcessWire • Textpattern • tt-rss • Twyne • TYPO3
WordPress (PHP)	Indieweb Plugin • Webmention • Semantic Linkbacks • Micropub • IndieAuth • Post Kinds • Syndication Links • WebSub plugins • See Template:WordPress for others.
Python	BeautifulSoup • blag • Bleach • Bridgy Fed • Bundle • django CMS • IndieWeb Search • IndieWeb Utils • kaku • mf2util • Nefelibata • ninka • Publ • Pushl • python-indieweb • Red Wind • Requests • ronkyuu • Woodwind • gunicorn
Ruby	Dark Matter • Feedbin • FrancisCMS • GitLab • Micropublish • Publify • Ruby on Rails • Sinatra • Singulus • Transformative • webmention.io • Jekyll • Authorio • ruby parser • microformats-ruby
JavaScript	AerosolCMS • CASSIS • Camel • Eleventy • Ghost • IndieKit • D3
Others	Apache (C) • Forgejo (Go) • Hugo (Go) • Firefox (C++) • Nginx (C) • NetNewsWire (Swift) • Snac (C)