Been following Gitlab pretty closely. At raintank we run a fairly large open source project on Github: Grafana. We're pretty frustrated with a lot of limitations on Github.
These limitations are becoming more painful as we grow our team, and deal with more issues across more repos.
Gitlab seems to be iterating pretty quickly. Github glacially.
For us, the killer feature that Github has is the network effect. We want to make it as easy for people to contribute code/collaborate on Grafana, and Github is where all the action (developers and code) is.
I suspect that many medium/large OSS projects have the same mindset.
I understand if you don't move to GitLab yet because of the network effect. Just so you know, GitLab allows people to log in with their GitHub account.
These limitations are becoming more painful as we grow our team, and deal with more issues across more repos.
Gitlab seems to be iterating pretty quickly. Github glacially.
For us, the killer feature that Github has is the network effect. We want to make it as easy for people to contribute code/collaborate on Grafana, and Github is where all the action (developers and code) is.
I suspect that many medium/large OSS projects have the same mindset.