Host your own forgejo
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dan@upvote.au 3 days ago
I think sometimes people forget that one of the main features of Git is that it’s decentralized. You don’t need Github; just push your repo to a different remote.
The main issue is the auxiliary non-Git-powered features of Github, like issue tracking.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
E_coli42@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why not use codeberg.org?
KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Why forgejo over self-hosted gitlab?
russjr08@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Depending on what your needs and available resources are, GitLab is fairly heavy especially in comparison to Forgejo.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Forgejo is also infinitely easier to run. Its a static go binary that uses an sqlite database.
KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Fair! Mind you, the question was genuine curiosity. I don’t have projects of my own hosted at this time, but I may soon.
Linearity@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Because it’s going to implement federation soon
Nobody is going to sign up to your website just to post an issue on one repository. Federation is perfect for software forges.micka190@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe I’m just dumb, but I always thought half of GitLab’s features were unavailable to self-hosted instances. It’s why I just self-host Gitea and Woodpecker instead.
TechnoCat@piefed.social 2 days ago
I would like to see a Git repo hosting solution that also stores issues and other meta data in either an ancillary git repo or a branch of the git repo as files.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
This is important to remember. People sometimes give me quizzical responses when I point them to the repository for the Bypass Paywalls Clean plugin because it’s hosted on a Russian git site. The plugin was chased off the Firefox add-ons site/Chrome add-ons site, it was chased off of Gitlab, it was chased off of Github, all over DMCA takedown requests. People act like “well it must be shady because it’s not on a well known git site” and yet is hosted in a country that doesn’t respect the US copyright cabals control over media literally because that’s the only safe harbor for it. The developer even has this snippet on his description of the plugin:
Yet it’s super common for people to be absolutely suspicious of it.
Using alternative gits is so important and is literally what allows programming and especially open source programming, to thrive.