VLC is also using their selfhosted Gitlab. And just as on the Arch gitlab, they ...

dnsmichi · on Dec 8, 2023

GitLab team member here.

Spamcheck is available for all tiers https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reporting/spamchec... For licensing reasons, it can only be included in EE, and not CE. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/issues/6259#n... You can run GitLab EE with the free tier as well.

Foxboron · on Dec 8, 2023

That is not great. Currently this makes the barrier of entry for new people to contribute to projects using gitlab quite a lot higher.

There is also a huge volunteer cost here where we have to manually make accounts.

dnsmichi · on Dec 13, 2023

Thanks for your feedback. I copied it into the Arch Linux migration issue in the Open Source Program group https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/developer-relations/...

type0 · on Dec 9, 2023

yeah but many FOSS orgs are run in a way that they state in their own bylaws that they would not use proprietary infrastructure and communication tools in order not to scare away Free Software purists. Then they get overrun by spammers and the whole project might get laid on ice because of it.