I think its hilarious that all the Gitlab development is occurring on Github.

aus_ · on March 22, 2013

I believe the developers chose to develop on GitHub so the project would get more exposure to the open source community. And because Gitlab.com is more oriented to private repository hosting. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/3187

sytse · on March 22, 2013

You are right, the orientation towards on-premises installations is why we don't have public projects yet. But with GitLab Cloud the requests for public projects became louder.

sytse · on March 22, 2013

We're pragmatic about the development of GitLab. A lot of people want public projects, it is the most popular request for GitLab http://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general/suggestion...

timmow · on March 22, 2013

Public projects and the need to add every single developer to every single project they needed access to (no concept of teams) were the main reasons we moved from Gitlab to Github Enterprise

sytse · on March 22, 2013

FYI GitLab has teams of users, groups of projects and public clone now. Completely public repo's is being discussed http://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general/suggestion...

jurre · on March 22, 2013

Next Amsterdam.rb hackathon we'll get it done :D

sytse · on March 22, 2013

Looking forward to that! After the previous hackathon we made many improvements to GitLab Vagrant VM :-)

marin · on March 22, 2013

Gitlab development is on our own gitlab server. Github account is just a matter of wider audience exposure. Marin GitLab.com