Features (from the website, to save you clicking through):
1. Language aware code navigation and search.
2. Source and diff comment for code discussion and comprehension.
3. Rules to protect branches, tags, or files.
4. Intelligent commit query and subscription.
5. Advanced pull request for efficient code review.
6. Sophisticated pull request query and subscription.
7. Custom issue states and fields for flexible workflows.
8. Powerful issue query and subscription.
9. Coherent and self-updating issue boards.
10. Cross references amongst code, issues and builds.
Which are cool advanced features and all, but I don't know how they could compete with GitHub and GitLab ... any features that are useful or which put GH/GL at a disadvantage will simply be cloned by the larger orgs' armies of developers. Features aren't defensible.
I guess it's open source, so the developers get to define success simply as "this exists for me to use, because I want those features" or anything else they want. There's no sign of a for-pay version on their website, so I guess it might not a direct commercial competition to GH/GL. Creators: are you around to tell us what you're doing with OneDev?
I think it looks pretty cool! It probably competes more with Phabricator then GitHub and GitLab.
Though I think its also different from GitHub and GitLab in the sense that its fully open source and can be hosted on your own server. Sure GitHub has a paid proprietary product which you can host yourself but that's not the same. Also GitLab is open core and a lot of stuff is not in the open core like; managing of epic's, multiple workboards, issue weight, etc. I can also never create such functionality and send it upstream (forcing me to maintain a fork) which reduces its OSS value.
It is open source. We develop this tool to manage our own projects as GitHub/GitLab does not have many features we wanted. If these "advanced" features turns out to be useful for most users and GitHub/GitLab decides to copy, that will be fine, as we hope GitHub/GitLab to have them in the first place. Sometimes large companies move slowly until there are competitions pushing them.
1. Language aware code navigation and search.
2. Source and diff comment for code discussion and comprehension.
3. Rules to protect branches, tags, or files.
4. Intelligent commit query and subscription.
5. Advanced pull request for efficient code review.
6. Sophisticated pull request query and subscription.
7. Custom issue states and fields for flexible workflows.
8. Powerful issue query and subscription.
9. Coherent and self-updating issue boards.
10. Cross references amongst code, issues and builds.
Which are cool advanced features and all, but I don't know how they could compete with GitHub and GitLab ... any features that are useful or which put GH/GL at a disadvantage will simply be cloned by the larger orgs' armies of developers. Features aren't defensible.
I guess it's open source, so the developers get to define success simply as "this exists for me to use, because I want those features" or anything else they want. There's no sign of a for-pay version on their website, so I guess it might not a direct commercial competition to GH/GL. Creators: are you around to tell us what you're doing with OneDev?
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