GitLab
| GitLab | |
| URL | https://gitlab.com/ |
| Status | Online! |
| Archiving status | Not saved yet |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
GitLab is a software repository powered by Git. There is a large public instance as well as many independently-run small ones.
Vital signs
Early August 2022, GitLab (the main instance) apparently made plans to delete repositories created on free accounts that had been inactive for more than a year, in order to decrease their hosting costs.[1] After people complained, GitLab announced that they instead going to address the old-repository problem through internal technical measures.[2]
Discovery
Repositories have numerical IDs. They can be used through https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/{id}.[3] Assuming that the ID of the most recent project is the highest, somewhere between 4% and 13% of IDs have projects at them (95% confidence interval).[4]
- ↑ https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy
- ↑ https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1555325376687226883
- ↑ https://hackint.logs.kiska.pw/archiveteam-bs/20220804#c324451
- ↑ Quick sample; "most recent" ID from tech234a, see the IRC logs