Thanks for the info and heads-up 👍

Fair point, the irony isn’t lost on me. Development actually happens on a self-hosted GitLab as already mentioned in the post; GitHub is the public mirror because it still gets the most visibility and contributions, and F-Droid and Obtainium pick up releases from there. If you’d rather not touch GitHub at all, F-Droid builds it from source.

I had thought about that initially, but chose github thinking that gitlab repos don’t get as much attention(in terms of contributions and popularity) compared to github for some reason. I might be wrong but that’s what I thought looking at other unrelated awesome apps hosted on gitlab.

Well, people can use whatever software they like, be it any. I’ve just shared something that I initially created for internal use only and thought would help larger gitlab community to be more productive in their day to day work. Btw OctoLab is for GitLab instances only. And your reply sounds more like promotion than app alternatives suggestions.

Personally, I had tried LabNex and Labcoat before for gitlab but none come even close to(what i wanted from a gitlab client and hence OctoLab was created) OctoLab in terms of UX and features.

Let users decide for themselves. Thanks

Yes, those are not on public repo, github releases mention that although its not mentioned in readme.

That refers to development and fix cycles over days/week and then squash-merged into a release. Those are worked on an internal gitlab repo so they’re not on github but release notes include full changelogs.

To avoid confusion, maybe I should exclude issue numbers from changelogs unless they’re from github issues.

Thanks for the feedback. I will consider modifying disclosure as and if applicable.

For clarity, the app is not made from scratch and is a fork of OctoDroid(FOSS client for github) so only gitlab specific APIs and screen changes have been modified/added. There’s no 1000-4000 lines to review at any point of time. Commits are made in small batches while fixing/development/test cycles and squash-merged into one commit for release, so you probably are referring to such squashed commits. I don’t blame you for thinking that and your feedback makes sense.

On a side note, I just recently saw a post on Lemmy regarding reddit becoming too negative recently. It seems its not specific to reddit and Lemmy may not be so different in that regard, especially as the userbase grows.