I'm using it right now. It's rather lightweight and is easy to setup on a low end VPS. The git-related code has features Bitbucket only just added: side by side diffs, comments at line number, activity log...
The issue tracker is rather basic (like Github) so you guessed correctly -- many people are using it alongside Redmine. I've created a simple patch and theme to tie the two together [1] - something that would be impossible with Github. Between the two it's had a significant positive impact on recent projects for both me and my clients. It's been much easier to grasp the current state of the project than using just gitk or a standard file browser or cli client. I expect to see many more Gitlab installations in the future. The ability to customize it for a need is invaluable.
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I'm using it right now. It's rather lightweight and is easy to setup on a low end VPS. The git-related code has features Bitbucket only just added: side by side diffs, comments at line number, activity log...
The issue tracker is rather basic (like Github) so you guessed correctly -- many people are using it alongside Redmine. I've created a simple patch and theme to tie the two together [1] - something that would be impossible with Github. Between the two it's had a significant positive impact on recent projects for both me and my clients. It's been much easier to grasp the current state of the project than using just gitk or a standard file browser or cli client. I expect to see many more Gitlab installations in the future. The ability to customize it for a need is invaluable.
[1] https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/97#issuecomment-...