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GitLab didn't disappoint me, but it didn't wow me either — it's the straight-A student, solid but predictable. There's almost no localization, so no pleasant surprises: powerful features, steep learning curve, incomplete Chinese translation. JiHu still has a long way to go on localization.
The China edition of GitLab, operated by JiHu Information Technology (Hubei) Co. and branded "JiHu", focuses on enterprise DevOps. I was lucky enough to join the SaaS beta — here's my look at the domestic version of JiHu.
My last post covered building OpenWRT (LEDE) manually. Building yourself gives more freedom, but it means paying for a server. Is there a free one? GitHub Actions Workflows lets you compile OpenWRT (LEDE) for free, and it's fast — the default config builds in about an hour.
Why am I griping about Gitee on my own blog instead of reporting it to Gitee? Because that's one of the things I'm griping about. Their issue workflow is broken too: I filed an issue, an official replied and rejected it, and once rejected I could no longer respond — so here I am, griping on my own blog.
GitHub Actions is a free CI/CD service, and it's now being abused to mine cryptocurrency. I introduce what GitHub Actions is in another post, so I won't repeat it here — see "First look at GitHub Actions Workflows".
On March 18, 2021, GitLab — the world's second-largest open source software company — announced that JiHu Information Technology (Hubei) Co., Ltd. has officially registered in Wuhan, China.
On January 5, 2021 GitHub's official blog published "Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran". Iranian developers had previously been blocked because of US sanctions.
The last post covered buying and configuring the server. This one is about Spring Boot optimization and technology choices: I switched to the more efficient FreeMarker, added Redis caching, added performance statistics, and added GitHub Actions workflows.
Contact GitHub — in English — and ask whether the username can be released, then wait for a reply. If you're lucky the username gets released immediately and you need to rename fast, because if someone else registers it first, all your effort was for nothing. Here's my conversation log.
Today I suddenly noticed a new badge on my GitHub profile, 'Arctic Code Vault Contributor' — which translates to 'Arctic Code Vault Contributor' — so I looked into this Arctic Code Vault.
