Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

[daveloyall]

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

[stonogo]

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.

vs

  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.

[codecalm]

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]

I love their Nigerian email scam-like address:

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

[anc84]

> Leave your email now and we’ll send you a free invite:

> Request your free download now

Nah, thanks, just point me at the repo.

[fixxer]

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

[numberwhun]

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.

[Kivlov84]

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!

[davexunit]

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

[ajmurmann]

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.

[espadrine]

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…

[tvvocold]

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.

[pbnjay]

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)...

[mosselman]

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

I must say that Meat looks very good.

[jfdk]

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.

[nutate]

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.

[tobbez]

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

[sytse]

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

[caia36]

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

[ocdtrekkie]

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

[tweekovsky]

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

[idibidiart]

huge turn off for vegans...

[dspillett]

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...

[moosey]

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.

[LePetitDev]

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

[tprus]

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 :)

[Kivlov84]

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

Alex from Meat!

[patricksanders]

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.

[sytse]

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?

[m4tthumphrey]

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.

[tom_r]

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

[Kivlov84]

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

[f3llowtraveler]

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

[Kivlov84]

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