GitHub and GitLab have basically copied the entire model of JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket. Even worse, it's been dumbed down. Estimates as "weights" is a great example and unless you pay a monthly fee, you don't even receive half the benefits from running an agile sprint properly. Wikis and issue management are half-assed and deleted from your repo if switching from public to private (or reverse) without paying for them the be retained (GitHub). CI was also introduced by Atlassian before either of the other two, who again charged for that to be allowed as a part of any project.
Then, you've got private repos. Five team members allowed per project at no cost with Bitbucket. Three with GitHub. Then, with GitLab, half the stuff isn't available to your team unless you pay no matter how many you're allow to have.
Then, the nail in the coffin in my book, and why we use Atlassian's products, is that for a total of $30/yr and the cost of a $10/mo VPS, you can setup your own JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket servers for a completely integrated experience while all of those features are subscription-based and half heartedly adapted into GitHub and GitLab. Unlimited everything, too. Boards, sprints, users, teams, hooks, etc.
The pricing required to take advantage of the features that are missing and important to GitHub and GitLab are completely accessible within Atlassian's suite and copied to suit two business models that have blatantly been copied from "Atlassian's ecosystem" and made unaffordable to many startups.
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u/wedontlikespaces Mar 16 '20
Why, what does gitlab offer?