And why?
Forgejo, a Gitea fork used by Codeberg. I chose it because it’s got the right balance of features to weight for my small use case, it has FOSS spirit, and it’s got a lovely package maintainer for FreeBSD that makes deployment and maintenance easy peasy (thanks Stefan <3).
+1 for Forgejo. I started on Gogs, then gathered that there had been some drama with that and Gitea. Forgejo is FOSS, simple to get going, and comfortable to use if you’re coming from GitHub. It’s actively maintained, and communication with the project is great.
I’ve been meaning to switch over from Gitea to Forgejo for ever. I’ll get it done tomorrow ;)
Why switch from Gitea to Forgejo, if I may ask?
Definitely best to get that done ASAP. Forgejo being a drop-in replacement for Gitea won’t be guaranteed ever since the hard fork:
To continue living by that statement, a decision was made in early 2024 to become a hard fork. By doing so, Forgejo is no longer bound to Gitea, and can forge its own path going forward, allowing maintainers and contributors to reduce tech debt at a much higher pace, and implement changes - whether they’re new features or bug fixes - that would otherwise have a high risk of conflicting with changes made in Gitea.
I do the same. Forgejo works really well, and I’m also absolutely stoked for forge fed some day.
It also has things like CI/CD. It’s a really really good project and self hosting it is relatively painless. Even integrating it with my identity provider over oidc was no problem.
I use github to star other repos because almost all repos are on github. A star supports the project.
I host my stuff on github because everyone else is on github and can star my repos.
I have access to codeberg
https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars
‘Stars’ are such a dubious, gamed feature telling you little value about a project’s quality. It doesn’t really ‘support’ a project, but it does feed into the anxiety & social media sludge on the platform. We would be better without them.
Codeberg for public repositories, cgit (if that even counts) on my own server for private ones
Gitea because GitHub offers limited features for a free Syrian account
I’m not cool enough to use Sourcehut and deal with patches and emails - they’re already a pain in the ass when I submit patches to GNU, so I stick to Codeberg.
Codeberg. I host my web portfolio live there and even did a small contribution to kbin when it was alive. It’s great though now I’d want to look at forgejo.
When you say you host it live on Codeberg, do you mean something akin to GitHub pages? I didn’t know that existed
Yup, that’s what I mean
Thanks, I never knew this existed. Time to migrate my sites too.
Oh that’s so cool! Thanks for the link.
I self-host forgejo. I’m not a heavy or advanced user, and it suits my needs. I barely use github any more: mainly to star repos I like, and find and use repos (there’s a ton there - it’s almost ubiquitous).
Just bookmark the repos you like; no Github account needed.
GitLab, because it’s FOSS.
Why not Codeberg, cus its FOSS and run by a donation-funded nonprofit.
You cannot host non-foss code on Codeberg. That’s a possible reason.
Cool, I like it more now.
Same. Their policy is very reasonable in my opinion. They still allow non foss stuff for like personal config files which is nice. The only time I ever got a warning was when I uploaded a 100MB file to a private repo without any license. It was just a banner on the repo. (I was messing around with alpine images.)
GitLab because for CI/CD is it far, far much user friendly and comfortable to use with GitLab CI compared to GitHub Actions and flows.
In addition I can integrate templates for CI/CD pipelines already defined with the To Be Continuous project (which is open source).
holy shit man
Seems to be container-dependent. I did too much security for that. Thanks, though.
self-hosted gitlab.
I love it. I can clone external repos on a schedule and build my projects based on my local cache. I’m even running some automation tasks like image deployments out of it too.
I can clone external repos on a schedule
Some cron deal?
pipeline schedules. once a month I clone the remote repo into a local branch, and push it back to my repo with an automatic merge request assigned to me. review & merge kicks off build pipeline.
I also use pipeline schedules to do my own ddns to route 53 using terraform. runs once every 15 minutes.
also once a week I’ve got about 50 container images I cache locally that I build my own images from.
pipeline schedules
Ah. Cron but from inside the garden. Okay.
No need to talk about containers. Having worked security (and build/rel) they present no net value.
cool.
Gitea self-hosted, because my repos are mine.
gitea: lightweight, self hostable. preety neat. can also be customized https://git.nowhere.moe
forgejo is a fork made by a nonprofit and deals with security issues much quicker
GitLab. The CI is fantastic.
Gitlab
Open source
Free ultimate for open source organisations, we get a lot of free pipeline minutes without having to run our own servers for devops. Allows us to focus on development
I use Gitlab, but i’m becoming increasingly more unhappy with it over time.
When i have enough resources run another local machine, im planning to switch to switch to Codeberg, with selfhosted Woodpecker CI instead
