Submitted 3 months ago by swooosh@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
We are changing our system. We settled on git (but are open for alternatives) as long as we can selfhost it on our own machines.
At work we selfhost gitlab (paid) and I’m checking gitea for my own projects. They have a good comparison table at docs.gitea.com/installation/comparison
Do you also need CI/CD?
Also working in a small team with Gitea. Pretty solid the last few years.
Is there a reason to choose gitlab over gitea?
We do not need ci/cd
If you don’t need CI/CD I don’t see any reasons to choose Girish over gitea. But I’m still testing gitea so take my words with a grain of salt :)
If you don’t need CI/CD I’m not sure why you need a centralized frontend at all. Git itself is distributed and you can setup any code flow you can think of. It has hooks that can be used to set up code quality checks on select branches. There are local history browser apps for every platform and IDE plugins.
A frontend is no substitute for developer communication — usually what the “PR” thing does is sugarcoat the fact the devs don’t know how to use Git and/or don’t talk to each other.
If money isn’t a problem then gitlab is your best choice.
It’s the most mature of the options you have available to you.
I use gitlab for airgapped networks
I would use Gitlab only in an airgapped network. Password resets sent to attacker-supplied emails is such a complete failure of a security model it seems like it is only a matter of time until the next critical vulnerability.
Yeah their security track record as of late is pretty bad…
We’re also using Forgejo for a small consulting team working on lots of different projects for a lot of different clients.
A couple of our team members who came from a more complex and scaled environment (particularly our DevOps / SRE guy who’s worked at such places as LinkedIn and Snowflake) want to move us to Gitlab because it’s “more powerful” but I like Forgejo because it’s just super simple. Just does exactly what I need, doesn’t give me to many more options.
We have
One of our devs wanted to use Actions. It’s hard to get that working and (at least a month ago) there were warnings that Actons aren’t mature yet and are probably insecure (looks like that may have changed with the recent jump to Forgejo 8.0). I think it’s now a non issue for us though because we were like “Dude, stop trying to role your own CI/CD, that’s why we have two infrastructure people!”
As you look through these recommendations, keep in mind that source code storage will be one in-scope for PCI DSS certification in the very near future.
Gitlab Community edition is what we use
Define, what does “git” mean to you?
The core git is a peer to peer system. You don’t need any server at all. It runs on all of your dev’s workstations anyway.
If you want a webserver with gitlab etc. on top of it, then that determines your needs.
We are looking for a versioning system for collaborated work. Each person shall have his own version with a central main version. Being able to commit, push and restore versions.
Thx for asking, we have a nameserver and active directory. We move this system from team foundation server / azure devops server
I’m currently looking at onedev.io for personal and startup use but since I haven’t had an opportunity to test it out yet I can’t vouch for it. It looks cool though and seems to have a good rep.
antonionardella@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can vouch for Forgejo
forgejo.org
Easy to set up, has a website GUI like Github/GitLab you can use git GUIs with it
codeberg.org runs on Forgejo
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 3 months ago
Forgejo is leading the federated git initiative
swooosh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thank you! That would be my go to for my own projects as well. As far as I know they don’t want company sponsorship. I am unsure about sustainability
JASN_DE@lemmy.world 3 months ago
In what regard?