So how is Gitlab compared to GitHub?
It lacks in user base (which might not matter for internal use) and performance and reliability. It can be slow and it goes down occasionally. It hasn’t been enough of a problem for my company to move back to GitHub.
These observations only apply to the hosted GitLab.com, as I don’t self host I don’t know the differences there. I have both public and private personal projects as well as private company projects on it.
With Gitlab you set up a runner instance with their CLI and you're good to go.
Perhaps that's unclear, but as of 9.5.x you can assign an issue to multiple users, but you can only assign a merge-request to one user.
Being able to assign a merge-request to multiple users would be very useful..
It's not quite as polished as github yet but with their recent funding round I would expect gitlab to pick up steam and close the gap even further. For day to day use I'd say they are now at 95% feature parity or even better, and in some cases it is actually ahead.
I still switch between Hub and Lab, but seeing GitLab's growth makes me smile.
I personally think GitLab is hungrier, and have some really great features, but I haven't had any contact with their support to know if something goes wrong that one can get unstuck quickly