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comador
lemmy.world

No, end story.

Edit: For those seeking alternatives I'd recommend Gitlab, Gitea or Bitbucket.

Another alternative I personally hate due to the lack of automation or hosting options is codeburg, but many are fine with those limitations.

Remember, Microsoft, who now owns GitHub once called Linux and Open Source a cancer on society.

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unitedwithmereply
lemmy.today

Codeberg. It's OSS, whereas I don't believe Gitlab or even Gitea are anymore.

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Jaysynreply
lemmy.world

Gitea is open source, it uses the MIT License.

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unitedwithmereply
lemmy.today

Oh OK good, I thought once they EMT corporate they went closed source and for profit

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talreply
lemmy.today

I don't particularly have a problem with Codeberg or with GitHub, but if I were doing a software project and it were GPL-licensed and I didn't have an existing presence anywhere, I'd probably look at the FSF's Non-GNU Savannah. I have a pretty high level of trust that anything that the FSF does is going to be okay (and, frankly, it's one of the few organizations where there is necessarily a fair bit of trust in that the FSF can create updated versions of the GPL that GPL-licensed software can be used under anyway), and they've been running that forge for...checks...24 years now. I would bet that 24 years from now, it'll probably be more-or-less the same.

EDIT: I would add that it'd maybe be kind of interesting to have some kind of distributed forge. I mean, git is intrinsically distributed, but as I talked about in a recent discussion, issue-tracking isn't (though there is a distributed git-bug that I discovered in that discussion), and while you can do code review via email (and email is distributed), a lot of people use non-distributed Web frontends on forges for it.

Like, I think that it might be nice to just make forges distributed, make people not rely on centralized infrastructure in general.

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comadorreply
lemmy.world

My personal Codeburg issues:

  • Consistently has had scaling issues
  • Forgejo, codebergs self hosted option requires too much manpower/manual work and/or custom ansible work compared to others (plenty of complaints on their forums and blog topics from codeburg on this)
  • Limited support, lack of binaries for different OS's and arch types
  • We don't use K8/docker containers for production use (manpower limitation more than anything)
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talreply
lemmy.today

Forgejo, codebergs self hosted option requires too much manpower/manual work and/or custom ansible work compared to others

Ehh. I mean, I haven't looked at it, but honestly, how hard would it be for someone to improve that?

searches

https://github.com/s-hamann/ansible-forgejo

I mean, if you're okay using that, the example per-site configuration there is like...36 lines of YAML.

EDIT: Oh, the example doesn't set up TLS, and I guess probably most people would want that.

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ExtremeDullard
piefed.social

I use GitHub. Heavily. VERY heavily. But I only use the git part of GitHub.

Why? Because:

  • The stuff I host on GitHub is open-source, so it's public, and Microsoft therefore has no monetizable data from me.
  • Since I only use git, I can migrate my repos anywhere else within minutes. Microsoft has no vendor lock-in on me.
  • I waste Microsoft's resources and they have nothing to show for it.
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