Looking into possibly replacing my GitLab instance, as I find it bloated and heavy on both hardware and maintenance compared to alternatives.
Currently I’m looking at:
So I’m wondering what the people on here use, and if they have any other suggestions or opinions?
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Gitea is light and fast so I highly recommend it. If you are worried about it being a for profit company, then use the fork, but if they haven’t done any harm, I’d said give them a shot.
Are there any feature differences between gitea and forgejo?
I can’t figure out any differences other than the ownership structure.
Forgejo is about to introduce support for federation, but is also planning to upstream those changes to GitTea down the line
being a for profit company
What do you mean by “gitea turned into a for profit”?
I really like gitea, set it up at my last job and it was easy to work with and used very little resources.
What do you mean by “gitea turned into a for profit”?
https://lemmy.world/comment/1377774, tldr; it’s FUD. Forgejo is also backed by a company [1]
Are the alternatives feature-complete in regards to GitLab CE?
I assume that by now you’ve made a decision, so if I may I’d like to chip in and ask what’s the benefit of self-hosting a Git instance, like the ones mentioned, over using existing free services like GitHub or Codeberg to host your code? What do you gain by hosting this yourself, apart from privacy and security?
I’d say the main benefit gained is sovereignty and a sense of place. This is not for personal use, but rather for a computer enthusiast association that I’m part of, so having our own git to integrate with the rest of our services makes sense. Throw on branding and link it to our SSO.
I’m on https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve and like it very much. It couldn’t be any simpler. As long as you don’t need PR/MR features and full blown web UI it’s a really good choice IMHO.
Certainly looks interesting, though being able to do code review and a more full-fledged CI/CD solution is a requirement.
Do you need ci/cd or only git? If just git, gitea or forgejo are super simple.
If you don’t need multiple users or a web ui, you could also just use ssh and store git repos on a server somewhere without extra services running:
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server
since 1.19 Gitea supports CI/CD action runners that are compatible with github actions. I have one that generates a static site from the data I store in gitea and publishes it to netlify.
My friend has deployed Phorge for himself and appears to be happy with it.
Big fan of Gogs personally. Simple, light and a doddle to install.
if you have a hard time choosing between Gitea and Forgejo I recommend picking Gitea for now, as they haven’t done anything bad just yet, but if they do Forgejo supports migration from Gitea.
iirc there isn’t an official way of migrating the other way so if Forgejo fucks up you may end up out of luck
Maybe sourcehut if you need more than git hosting.
+1 for Forgejo. It is super lightweight but still has all the common features. It also is not run by a for-profit corporation but is fully community-driven and maintained by a non-profit association everyone can become a member of.
