Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

https://getmeat.io

by sizixverteuk • 11 years ago

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anc84• 11 years ago

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Nah, thanks, just point me at the repo.

fixxer• 11 years ago

Looks like an interesting project, but yeah, either open it up or go pound sand.

patricksanders• 11 years ago

Looks pretty nice. I've been using/administering GitLab for our company, but I've always found it a bit heavy for our needs. I might give this a shot and see how it is.

sytse10• 11 years ago

GitLab CEO here, I would love to know what kind of heavy is the problem you're experiencing, hard to setup? hard to upgrade? cpu/ram/disk usage? too many features?

drewmate• 11 years ago

How do people find and respond to any mention of their company on HN? I get why you'd want to, it's fantastic PR to seem/be so engaged with your users, but where do you find the time? Is there some monitoring service that notifies you whenever any keyword is mentioned on social media?

est2• 11 years ago

Mostly, RAM problem. We have a budget server with 1G RAM, had to restart Gitlab everyday, otherwise we get constant 500 errors.

SunShiranui• 11 years ago

I've been thinking about buying a Raspberry Pi 2 to run Gitlab on it. Do you think it is feasible or will the performance be too bad for normal use? I'll be hosting about 2-3 repos with 4 users on it.

m4tthumphrey• 11 years ago

Do you mind if I ask why you think it's "heavy" ? I've been using it for about 3 years now and think it's an awesome tool. It's done me very proud at two different companies, as well as a personal install.

daveloyall2• 11 years ago

Proprietary license, no source. https://getmeat.io/license

stonogo3• 11 years ago

Not just a proprietary license: a license written by someone who doesn't understand how licenses should be written.

  IF YOU DO NOT OWN THE SOFTWARE, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD, 
  INSTALL, COPY OR USE THE SOFTWARE.

  You further acknowledge that title and full ownership 
  rights to the Software will remain the exclusive property 
  of BigHit and/or its suppliers,

There are all kinds of other bush-league errors and naive contradictions in there. It's a bit embarassing.

jedrek• 11 years ago

So I can't download the software?

Cool, I won't.

Kivlov848• 11 years ago

Hi guys, Alexander from Meat! over here.

Thanks for expressing your concern, it's totally understandable and we appreciate that.

Now, to clear things up: we're a team of 10 and we spent an entire year on developing Meat!, day in, day out. To be honest, the license was our least concern, we just wanted to give you software that wouldn't be just another GitLab clone (hi there GitLab folks!) and we didn't devote the license the attention it required. Sorry about that, we're going to give it a closer look once we get some sleep this weekend.

Anyway, if there's enough response from the community for Open Source - then we'll do Meat! Open Source. We've never had any problems with that and we never will. Just let us know.

We're going live next week and you'll be able to evaluate the software for yourself. Your feedback will be most welcomed.

Cheers, Alex and the Team at Meat!

codecalm• 11 years ago

Meat people says:

Do you want Meat! to be open-source? Pleas tell us @getm3at why you think it is important and we will definitely consider your opinion. We want Meat! to be adopted as widely as possible :)

https://getmeat.io/license

it look pretty nice!

badmadrad• 11 years ago

I love their Nigerian email scam-like address:

BigHit 5 LONDON ROAD, LONDON, SW17 9JR, UNITED KINDOM

Kivlov848• 11 years ago

badmadrad, if we did it Nigerian style, the address would be written in a much fancier font :)

ocdtrekkie2• 11 years ago

It's "free" and "self-hosted"... but is it "open"?

tweekovsky• 11 years ago

i think it's something like gitlab with free option 3 repos max.

teraflop• 11 years ago

Except that Gitlab has an open-source community edition, and a visible-source enterprise edition. Meat seems to be entirely proprietary and closed-source.

idibidiart• 11 years ago

huge turn off for vegans...

LePetitDev• 11 years ago

The naming, alone, was enough for me to chuckle and give the link a click.

dspillett2• 11 years ago

When I get around to working on and publishing some personal projects I have in mind (well: if I ever get around to such things...) I'll be deliberately picking iffy names for two reasons:

1. I find it amusing to irritate people who are so easily irritated by that sort of thing (I know, I should poke bears, but...)

2. People not using the project because of the name acts as a self selection device for the userbase. The sort of people who care so much about the name are more likely to be the sort of users who are costly (or impossible) to try keep happy generally...

tortoise_face• 11 years ago

Why not care about a name? To someone who cares about animal rights the name "Meat!" and cute little pictures of steaks trivializes and normalizes something they might find abhorrent. You wouldn't name your app "Abortion!" and if you find yourself saying "well, that's far more offensive than 'Meat!'" then that's just you assuming your values apply to everyone.

Also, there's a bit of a gap between being uncomfortable with something and being "impossible to keep happy".

They can of course name their app whatever they want, but it seems to me that if you're selling something as innocuous as a git hosting platform that you'd do your best to distance yourself from something so needlessly alienating to potential customers.

Kivlov848• 11 years ago

idibidiart, all vegans are most welcomed to Meat!, we make no exceptions! :)

Alex from Meat!

moosey• 11 years ago

I'm a vegan and the name didn't "trigger" anything. That's anecdotal though, and I'm definitely not a militant vegan.

Edit: thought I'd mention that 'meat' has many definitions, one being male genitalia. Also, possibly "The essence, substance, or gist" (had to look that up for good verbiage). If it was something more like "bovine slaughterhouse" then I probably wouldn't be interested in it at all.

tprus• 11 years ago

Cool, It's not for vegans :D I want to try it! I hope it's not for fruitarians too! I hope it's biiig juicy T-bone steak :)

davexunit• 11 years ago

This is non-free, actually. What's the point of self-hosting proprietary software?

espadrine• 11 years ago

Open-source is not just about the product's source being visible. They would need people to review patches, venues to interact with contributors, a policy to publicize future features to avoid clashing with contributors' work…

thecatspaw2• 11 years ago

they could also do visible-source.

vezzy-fnord• 11 years ago

Those are project management/administrative details that have nothing to do with the definition of open source itself.

As it stands, the project's continuous use of the word "free" to mean gratis when marketing software meant for other programmers (if it was for non-technical users, I wouldn't object), I find to be deceptive.

ajmurmann• 11 years ago

Maybe you don't want another company to be able to look at your IP. Or maybe you want or need to hold yourself to a higher security standard then hosted alternatives. If your code is hosted with a third party out on the Internet, your own service now is only as secure as that third parties.

ocdtrekkie2• 11 years ago

It's just weird to combine "free" with "proprietary" in a self-hosted context. If it's free and self-hosted, why are they not allowing access to the source? Considering the possibility of your IP being leaked by a proprietary program on your server, maybe that higher security standard should include an open requirement.

mosselman7• 11 years ago

Are there open-source alternatives apart from Gitlab that anyone can recommend?

I must say that Meat looks very good.

nutate2• 11 years ago

Gogs is interesting but it doesn't have a full pull request workflow built in. It runs on super small hw requirements which makes it nice if you just want to use it for yourself.

DullDeveloper• 11 years ago

Can second that, gogs is great. It takes 5 minutes to set up and the source is all on github.

metasean• 11 years ago

http://gogs.io/

mosselman7• 11 years ago

Too bad that it doesn't have pull requests, but that still makes it acceptable for private projects. Might just be the excuse for buying another raspberry ;).

tobbez• 11 years ago

There's https://kallithea-scm.org, but I haven't tried it.

est2• 11 years ago

It's a fork from Rhodecode if anyone is wondering. New version of Rhodecode offers git/hg/svn while Kallithea offers git/hg

mosselman7• 11 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really like the interface though. Meat looks a lot nicer.

jfdk• 11 years ago

http://phabricator.org is actually really great. It started in-house at Facebook. We've been using for the better part of year and I absolutely love it's code and design review tools. It also has a really nice CLI for managing your different reviews. Oh, and you don't have to worry about actually hosting the repos yourself (not worth the headache to me), you can just connect it to your github repo.

Don't be scared by the fact that it's done in PHP. It's actually really well done is very active in bringing out new updates and features.

thoughtpolice• 11 years ago

I also highly recommend Phabricator - it has excellent tools, active (paid) developers who are excellent people, and is very easy to maintain and use. I also think it simply scales to bigger projects much more effectively than GitHub (in some important ways - like emphasizing rebase and small, continuous development, a better UI, and better notification and commenting/review system as well). That's just me, though.

We use it for GHC, and I've had bugs fixed within 10 minutes of finding them on our live install thanks to the devs. They've also helped us write extensions and customize our Phab install. We've had a very good experience all around.

mosselman7• 11 years ago

Cool suggestion, I will give it a try. Great that it works with existing repos.

nutate2• 11 years ago

Definitely want to check this out. Did they redo their site post F8? I had talked w/ some FB devs at the react conference and one said that the code review process at FB was the #1 thing that made him a better programmer day in day out.

sytse10• 11 years ago

Hi mosselman, just curious to know why GitLab doesn't fit your need.

mosselman7• 11 years ago

I am not sure that it doesn't. I found it a bit of a pain to setup the last time I tried though. Apart from that I mostly meant 'apart from Gitlab' because I have already played around with it and was looking for a fun new thing to try out.

f3llowtraveler• 11 years ago

"It's state-of-the-are"

Kivlov848• 11 years ago

Fixed, thanks for pointing that out! [Alex from Meat!]

pbnjay• 11 years ago

It looks interesting, but really needs a live demo I can play with. The screenshots on this page make it look really simple (probably TOO simple)...

numberwhun• 11 years ago

I agree with all of the others that the licensing on this product is wonky. In fact, the EULA is between the person who download it..... and a music industry company? (BigHit Management Ltd.) Um, no. I don't think so. Big Hit can keep its software. I will keep my options open only to software that is more in tune and in line with the FOSS belief.

Kivlov848• 11 years ago

numberwhun, please read our response under the first comment at the top. We're definitely not a music industry company, in fact we're far from any big industry :)

Alex from Meat!

tom_r• 11 years ago

How can I get an invitation. Please let me in ;) It looks interesting

Kivlov848• 11 years ago

tom_r, just leave your email at the site http://getmeat.io, we should get back to you with the invite next week.

caia36• 11 years ago

Omg, it's awesome! The interface... stunning. I work in the 'lil team of fifteen people, working on social network focused on students and young developers, and this, this made me think and want more... It's awesome!

PS. I love the name. I will spread it! Keith

tvvocold• 11 years ago

Cool! I think it will got more users when it's OpenSource. You can check https://github.com/httpsGithubParty/FOSS-for-Dev to see how it works.

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