The headline is somewhat insulting, because I don't think my current code management system sucks.....different strokes for different folks, I guess.

The product being marketed is a replacement for Gerrit, though. They have found a different way to handle code reviews, merges, and also added features like issue trackers and integrations with other tools. It might be worth taking a look at, but I tend to prefer free (as in speech) tools over proprietary tools.

Some of the English is sounds a bit quirky to me ... "Pull Requests like never seen before"?

Interesting nonetheless as we've been looking for software similar to Gerrit.

We will work on that, thank you for your feedback! :)

I love the features of GitColony. At GitLab we had many similar requests. We already implemented multiple reviewers, rebasing, marking something as a work in progress. But many of their other features are also very useful. And the good news is GitLab support is coming soon.

Thank you Sytse for your words, I do really appreciate them :) GitLab is a great product and we do think we can help to make it even better with Gitcolony!

The pricing is a little weird here. As the team size grows, it gets more expensive per head at every pricing level. Usually, it's the opposite.

This looks interesting. Does it give you the ability to setup rules so, say, X amount of reviewers must approve a PR before it could get merged? Also what about protecting, say, master from direct pushes? Github seems stagnant and I know Gitlab is rapidly working on many of these types of features; it would be cool to see better support for reviews in general in any of these systems.

Yes, you can do that and many other rules: your CI, open issues and you can even have linked pull requests from different repositories.

If you have any other questions, just let me know and I'd more than happy to help :)

So how does the workflow work, if you're already using Github and want to keep hosting your projects there? Does it simply pull and push commits via an app token?

That's correct! Gitcolony runs on top of your Github's repos and we keep everything synced both ways (we don't lock in any data at all).

Could you elaborate for my benefit what you mean by that? I thought git was distributed by its very nature since the repository lives in many remotes and no single one is critical to the others.

> Gitcolony.com

> In our servers

> This is our cloud hosted version of Gitcolony which we operate and maintain for you.

git is distributed. Gitcolony is not distributed. For that matter GitHub, as a review tool, is also not distributed. For an example of a commercial tool with distributed reviews see http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/review

For an example of an open source tool with distributed reviews see https://github.com/google/git-appraise

Git is distributed..

The product is not "git"...

We are based on Git, in fact you can connect your GitHub Enterprise account

See my response to sibling comment