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Dec 6, 2014 at 00:55
GitLab looks really good. There is a school of thought that says F/OSS shouldn't be hosted on a proprietary service. I'm sympathetic.

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Aug 10, 2024 at 23:21
Today I learnt that Emacs 28 shipped a context-menu-mode! https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20230129/ This seems quintessentially Emacs: deeply hackable, but building UI features in an order very different to the mainstream.
Context menus in Emacs 28!
Today I learned that Emacs 28 added context-menu-mode so that we can easily add context menus. This is a minor mode which you can toggle with M-x context-menu-mode RET but I added hooks to enable it for text mode and a couple others (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'context-menu-mode) I did not hook prog mode because some of the fancier lsp things already use mouse-3.
Apr 14, 2019 at 18:47
Changing a project's hosting to GitLab is a major undertaking. When KDE and GHC migrated, they had a tracking issue to list all the painpoints they had! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/53206 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55039 A great way to collaborate and for the GL maintainers to see what users need.
KDE migration to GitLab (#53206) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS · GitLab
Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) migration to GitLab (#55039) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS · GitLab
Oct 10, 2018 at 18:48
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GitLab has an excellent, candid discussion of how they're doing 'open core' development, and resolving the tensions that occur:
GitLab The One DevOps Platform