Roku moves every developer repository from GitHub to GitLab
Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Roku has finished migrating all its developer resources — documentation, sample apps, SDK tooling, and the RSG 2.0 open-source software — from GitHub to GitLab, keeping the same repository names under gitlab.com/rokudev. Developers must update bookmarks, git remotes, submodules, and CI pipelines; Roku warns that AI retrieval pipelines reading raw.githubusercontent.com will silently serve stale content until re-crawled. The "Suggest edits" feature no longer works, so doc fixes now go through merge requests.
Check this case first: a stale index does not raise an error, it quietly serves outdated content.
- PedroBatista
Gitlab, for all it's flaws fits so much better in "regular" company/organization projects. It's more in line on what people involved in software dev and all the tasks around it have as a mental model and less of a "open source dev social network" like Github tried to be almost from the start and lately got Microsofted. An lets not even bring the CI / Github Actions topic..
- rr808
Worth mentioning that Roku is being acquired by Fox so in the virtue battle with Microsoft neither are clean
- bob1029
(Assuming the move was due to the recent outages)
I don't know that the grass will remain green for very long anywhere in this current scenario.
GitHub is not having most of its outages because GitHub's engineers are using AI (although there might be a case or two of this). The primary driver of the outages is the fact that developers can move so much faster in their workflows. Every single user of these products is placing a heavier demand on the system. I don't think this ramping of demand will cease any time soon. I fully expect to receive an email any second now about how my 5,000 req/hr GH API quota will be cut in half before 2027.
I don't understand how GitLab would be immune from these forces, unless we were willing to reach for self-hosted & enterprise plans. Both of which GitHub offers.
- tangotaylor
I wish they would spill some tea and articulate why they moved.
- clivedup
Every thread relating to Github seems overwhelmingly negative towards Github.
Even as an appreciator of multiple Git forges... Github seems good?
- brightball
I saw a big write up on using Dagger for CI no matter your git host and I was curious if there were any real benefits?
- Lerc
The thread here is interesting, because I am in a rather different situation.
I made a game that I thought people might like. I'm trying to offer it to F-Droid and I am encountering pressure to create a GitLab account.
I have been finding it intensely ironic that a project like F-Droid is doing this. It seems like they have, themselves, built processes that have resulted in a form of lock-in that requires others to sign up to GitLab for interoperability.
- prologic
Did this back in ~2021 for my own repos :D https://prologic.blog/posts/2021-07-11-why-i-no-longer-trust...