Another “Differences in Linux” question :)

I often wonder, what exactly is the difference between this services?

I understand, that:

  • github.com is a company, where as gitlab and forgejo are (softwares)?
  • They all “manage/wrap/interface with” git?

Questions:

  • what software does github.com use?
  • whats the difference between them (pros/cons)?
  • what about self-hosting? Possibilities/Preferences?

As always, thanks beforehand :)

  • variety4me@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 days ago

    As far as I know, neither Forgejo nor Gogs offer a hosted version, but Gitea does.

    Forgejo hosted version is https://codeberg.org/ which is my code forge of choice. I also have a self hosted private forgejo mirror of my public codebeerg repos.

    Edit: spellings

    • a Kendrick fan@lemmy.ml
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Forgejo hosted version is https://codeberg.org/ which is my code forge of choice

      Same here and I’m happy with that

      i’ve heard that they’re quite hostile to piracy stuff , but it’s also easy to self-host

    • iriyan@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 days ago

      gittea is also a company now, forgejo is open and free, trully free

      other than codeberg disroot has been running forgejo too I wouldn’t want to use anything but forgejo

      • toastal@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 days ago

        Truly free… yet in its fork of Gitea it is copying more Microsoft GitHub features like Action YAML spaghetti instead of offering an improvement. Instead of being a better offering than Microsoft, they are cloning even more features where it is even more of a hard sell IMO by not offering anything new in the experience.

        • iriyan@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          The difference with a small group of devs writing code and offering it free and corporate thugs treating coders like sponges to produce code is the lack of resources can be understood and forgiven. Take a project like brave-nightly (browser fork of glugle-elechrom) there are 3-5-8 new releases a day, 8-6 Pacific US time, when they go home on Fri. the next release is Monday afternoon, the “free” coders usually begin work Friday night and end Monday at dawn!

          Sure, corp.XYZ sends them an offer one day and buys their work and even offers them incentives to work for them, then it all goes down hill!

          It ends up being as nasty racist and ethnocentric as kernel.org.com - us state dept fed and controlled

        • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          Even Codeberg is not running Forgejo Actions, which is saying something (it’s super janky, many things just don’t work)

          • toastal@lemmy.ml
            1·
            6 hours ago

            It is a fool’s errand to try to chase Microsoft like this—folks will demand compatibility with all their new Copilot-enhanced CI. Present something better please—this would entice users to leave.