Submitted 18 hours ago by Gulliver@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/67880752
Hi, I want to self host a git service to display my work (electronics) for some recruiters. Which platform is the best? I’ve heard about Gitlab, Gitea and Forgejo. For me the fact that the platform doesn’t run some background analytics and does not sell my data is very important.
i tried all three for my personal use. so i can’t say much about collaboration aspects. anyway:
I’d say Forgejo as it is the most simple of the three. If you want more complexity (like CI/CD), then one of the other two. You can checkout Forgejo at codeberg.org.
Gitea is not fundamentally different, Forgejo is just a better fork of it. Better in terms of: more contributors, more users, dogfooding (Gitea is built on Github 🤦).
But yes, GitLab is like the Mac of Git forges: everything is included, doing everything their own way, vendor lock, very expensive. There is a community edition but serious users will run into its limitations and it does not integrate neatly with external solutions.
Forgejo is IMO the Linux of Git forges: low on resources, expandable, hackable, stable.
Dirk@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago 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.
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.
Eh, there’s not really a better/worse between Gitea and ForgeJo. Gitea is targeting business customers, ForgeJo is targeting the open source community.
CI/CD works fine for selfhosted forgejo, I set mine up with minimal hassle.
Is the CI/CD still a faithful clone of github’s worst-in-show setup? Because if I had a plan for ditching GL, the CI keeps forgejo from being a contender.
Sure, but it’s not part of Forgejo, is it?
Thanks for you reply, I did not know what CI/CD mean so just checked it, it’s not important for me because I want to display only finished project. Forgejo looks great and I just found it’s available as a TrueNas app which is great for me.
I’ve been running forgejo (and forgejo-runner for workflows) on TrueNAS for a little while now, without any issues really.
The runner image is also available as a TrueNAS app, so if you ever do want CI/CD it’s pretty simple to set up.
So I’m going to suggest something slightly different - put it on both github and codeberg, then note that its synced from your local repo as a mirror and link it in a readme.
Gives you a few things
Gitea for me, never had an issue with it. Work’s great!
i just put git repos in a dir on my server and use ssh to push/pull
I’d use nginx and https://git-scm.com/docs/git-http-backend
If you don’t need issue tracker, wki, CI etc., cgit will be enough. If choose from gitlab, gitea and forgejo, use forgejo.
Dirk@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago cgit always feels last century. Even with so-called “modern CSS” it’s just ancient.
talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
If it’s for recruiters, put it on github. That’s the one they are most probably familiar with and you want to minimize barriers to access.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If a corporate recruiter or technical recruiter can’t navigate a git forge that is not GitHub that is their failing not your problem to fix.
HelloRoot@lemy.lol 17 hours ago
yeah but they won’t fix it. They’ll make a note that this candidate is difficult to work with and look for another.
Ghoelian@piefed.social 11 hours ago
I mean that really depends on how badly you want the job.
Gulliver@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
That’s a good point 🥲
Also seo, I’ve sadly seen 4 year abandoned random forks rank as the first result and the actual project way below, just because it was on a self-hosted git. iirc that was the freedesktop one, so definitely not small, new, or low volume either.