There is a community edition but serious users will run into its limitations
No true Scot, then?
I’m running gitlab implementations at a few sites. I’ve not seen or heard of any performance limiter with a self-managed community edition that removes a tool the others still provide.
and it does not integrate neatly with external solutions.
Again, this sounds FUDdy. Which ‘external solutions’ are you using that a git-push fails on? Some spaghetti of saas tendrils seems to be already a risk, but I can’t think of any other external thing that it could mess up with.
We should also keep in mind that Gitea was hostilely taken away from the community by a for-profit corporation that made Gitea open-core by hiding a way features behind a paywall in a cloud.
FUD
Gitea is still MIT licensed and the Enterprise tier features only cater to large org needs [1]
why would I want to deal with nightmarish SAML config when OIDC does the job
FACT
The corporation basically stole the project from the community and started hiding features behind a paywall.
It is completely irrelevant if you need the features that are closed and behind a paywall and are not part of the open core.