Gitea vs GitLab issues

Easy to install and setup. Can run on a VPS with 1 core CPU and 256MB RAM.

Unlike Gogs, which is maintained primarily by its creator.

Easy to navigate around and feels very natural in general.

Just like Gogs, but with new features and fixed bugs. Unlike GitLab which is enormous.

Like GitHub, a wiki and issues (bugtracking) can be added to a repository.

New features, constantly updated.

If you love Gogs but were frustrated with the long wait for bugs to be fixed, this is for you.

Versions available for Linux, Mac and Windows. This is possible because Gitea is developed in the Go language which makes it compact and fast too. Only one executable is needed.

No problems getting to work with MariaDB.

Supports NuGet, npm, Cargo, Composer, Maven, RubyGems etc.
To work with the NuGet package registry, you can use command-line interface tools as well as NuGet features in various IDEs like Visual Studio.

Thanks to its light-weight and simple integration.

All templates can be overridden.

And if you want extra features, you can use web hooks.

GitLab's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information.

It displays the activity in a feed-type way in the most prominent part of the view. On top of that, there's a toolbar with buttons which can filter this feed by pushes, merge events or comments.

On the left, there's a menu that displays all the links that take you to the different views. For example, a file directory which displays all the files in that repo, a commit view which displays all the commits in cronological order, a network and a graph view that display important information graphically etc...

All these details make GitLab's UI extremely intuitive and easy to use, no view is overflown with information and every view displays only the most useful and crucial information needed at that time.

Gitlab is a free open source project licensed under MIT. Source code for Enterprise Edition can be found here and Community Edition here.

GitLab CI makes it easy to set up CI and deployment for projects in GitLab. It supports parallel testing, multiple platforms, Docker containers and streaming build logs.

GitLab is being constantly worked on and has a new release every month on the 22nd. Updating is also very easy through a single upgrade script.

On GitLab EE (free for open-source projects only) you can set the weight of an issue during its creation (from 1 to 9) to get a better idea of how much time, value or complexity a given issue has.