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It's monstrous, but gitlab installs from one big RPM on a base box; and with one config file you're up.
While I agree, out of the box the configs ARE NOT for home lab use.
For sure. And their bumbling has made it harder to deactivate all the useless bloat and get the good web-editor back. And a host of other mind-numbingly short-sighted decisions that show they're fully run by LostBoy coders who were never mentored and just don't know better.
But tuning can come after. And their CI is way fucking better than forgejo's facepalm of a GitHub clone. And that's a thin reason, but, yeah.
Yep.
It's like they wanna get bought to compete with GitHub or something.
They're moving fast and breaking things. And bloating their product in the process. In the last 24 months they paid over $1M to a single bug bounty hunter who basically took them to the cleaners.
But totally agree. It's the best UX, best product for home lab or even small enterprise use if you've got someone to get it tuned appropriately.