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Gogs – Go Git Service

341 points by of 11y ago

idoom 11y ago
Thumbs up, docker image (https://github.com/gogits/gogs/tree/master/docker https://github.com/gogits/gogs/tree/master/docker) works great and is easy to setup. I've had it running for a while on a machine and stopped paying for github :)
ihowlatthemoon 11y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210978
FiloSottile 11y ago
For extra ease and security (two things not often found together!) try setting it up in a Sandstorm server, works with one click and is sandboxed from the rest of your server. https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/
- pellucide 11y ago
  Took me about 3 minutes to have it running on a free account.
Rapzid 11y ago
How viable would alternate backends be? Like say, AWS CodeCommit?
fweespee_ch 11y ago
If anyone is interested in trying it, the packages are pretty good at keeping your installation up to date: https://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_packages https://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_packages It is what I use for my misc things at home.
Udo 11y ago
I've been using Gogs now for a few months and can't recommend it enough as opposed to GitLab. It does have some rough edges (for example the many instances where its CSRF protection feature misfires), but generally it's a very solid and performant git frontend. Although a plugin or widget system would be nice, it was also easy to extend the Gogs UI simply by editing its very straight-forward template files.
- ddon 11y ago
  Would be nice to have a list of features which Gogs offers and GitLab is missing! We are happy using GitLab...
  - toolz 11y ago
    I would guess the only feature gogs has over gitlab is low resources and easy install, which for someone like me who does solo side-projects and likes to commit to my home server, is enough reason.
    - endymi0n 11y ago
      That's what has been the deciding part for us in the end. While Gogs is super lightweight, Gitlab is so feature rich, stable and user focused, that it's the only piece of Ruby that's running in our stack. We were right in the decision phase for a CI and had already set up a Jenkins machine when Gitlab integrated their CI which has been super simple, reliable and well integrated so far, no comparison to the monster that Jenkins is. Recent work on performance has been stellar, setup was quick, including backups, and upgrades have been super painless, they really got the important parts nailed down. Can totally recommend it, and it's really got the traction to both catch up with Github and also offer unique features. The pull/merge request workflow isn't as refined and better code review support would be high on my wishlist, but overall it has been a great choice so far with little regrets.
      - sytse 11y ago
        Thanks for your kind words! What do you think we can improve in the pull/merge request workflow and in code review support?
        nicoster 11y ago
        make ?w=1 a default behavior haven't tried other alternatives but a happy gitlab user. you guys rock. the latest gitlab is much faster.
aaronpk 11y ago
I wrote about how and why I switched to Gogs from GitLab and Bitbucket here: https://aaronparecki.com/2016/02/13/18/ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/02/13/18/
tazjin 11y ago
Been using this for a while now and very happy with it. I decided to stop using Github for personal projects due to political disagreements with the company and the fact that git should really not be centralised. Gogs has probably 95% feature parity with Github and it is a lot faster (is Github still Ruby? That would explain it ...) I run a personal Kubernetes cluster for services and getting Gogs up and running was super-simple: https://git.tazj.in/tazjin/infrastructure/src/master/gogs/gogs-rc.yaml https://git.tazj.in/tazjin/infrastructure/src/master/gogs/go...
- mbrock 11y ago
  How can you compare speeds when you can't run GitHub on your setup? Running a multimillion user service is vastly different from running your own personal server, right?
  - minaguib 11y ago
    End-user usability feel (perceived speed) is all that matters, no ?
    - Touche 11y ago
      Sure, but you can't conclude that the language is the source of GitHub's (relative to this) lesser speed.
- paukiatwee 11y ago
  Just curious, where (AWS, DO, GCE or other) do you run your Kubernetes cluster ?
  - tazjin 11y ago
    GCE, it works extremely well there!
- umanwizard 11y ago
  Why would ruby explain it? Do you think most of the time you spend waiting for GitHub pages to load is due to CPU load on the application layer? Why would we expect this to be the case?
kevinSuttle 11y ago
It kills me when people build GitHub alternatives that are hosted on GitHub.
- skj 11y ago
  Why? Github is about distribution and collaboration with a community. This product seems to be about private self-owned hosting.
  - kevinSuttle 11y ago
    Then why aren't they hosting on their own product?
    - _1 11y ago
      because most people already have a github account
    - brazzledazzle 11y ago
      Different scale?
    - patrickaljord 11y ago
      Because that would be public hosting, parent just explained that gogs is great at _private_ hosting. When it comes to public hosting of open source projects with network effect, github is still king. I don't think anyone denies that.
    - skj 11y ago
      I'd answer, but I worry you wouldn't read my second reply either.
merpnderp 11y ago
We downloaded and installed Gogs, Gitlab, and Bitbucket. I liked Gogs the best, but Gitlab seemed more enterprise-y, and Bitbucket had an issue we could never figure out. We're trying to replace TFS, so we'll probably end up with Gitlab. But since I was the one doing the installing, I sure wish we'd go with Gogs. It was 5 minutes from start to finish.
- sytse 11y ago
  What can we improve in GitLab to make it better? Did the install take too long? Did you try our Omnibus packages or a source install?
  - coolsunglasses 11y ago
    I've tried and failed three times to get Gitlab to send me a sign-up email. I can't get it to work. I can't figure out how to disable the confirmation emails either. I'd be using a self-hosted Gitlab to try to fix the speed issues but because of this issue, I cannot. So, instead, I'm a refugee on your public service until I convince my coauthor to eat another repository migration to a private Gogs instance. I got gogs working in 5 minutes like OP said. Also Gogs is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> faster. It baffles me that I can be pushing an initial commit to an empty repository and my terminal will hang for 10-15 seconds. What's going on with that?
    - aroch 11y ago
      If you're self-hosting, I would use mailgun with the below config in your /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb https://gist.github.com/ar0ch/b33a9232776504bd83ac https://gist.github.com/ar0ch/b33a9232776504bd83ac
    - sytse 11y ago
      Thanks for the feedback. Aroch posted a good Mailgun config in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374883 but your post gave me the idea to disable confirmation emails by default https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14684 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14684 I'm not sure what is up with the initial commit issue you describe and made an issue to investigate https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14685 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14685 Thanks again!
empressplay 11y ago
We run Gogs on a bog-standard $10 VPS and it works great; quick, snappy, reliable. Very efficient. Can't recommend it enough. Resource usage matters.
xtacy 11y ago
Kudos on the polished project release. I am relatively new to go, and I am curious about the technology stack behind such a webapp. How does it work under the hood? - How do you develop such web apps with html, css, javascript, go, etc. all interacting with each other? - How are static assets packaged in a single binary? - Any simple tutorial or stack walkthrough you would recommend me reading? thanks!
- dejawu 11y ago
  - As it happens, this is also on the front page: https://astaxie.gitbooks.io/build-web-application-with-golang/content/en/preface.html https://astaxie.gitbooks.io/build-web-application-with-golan... - I also recommend going through Go's example wiki tutorial: https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ - By default, Go binaries are statically linked. If by static assets you mean CSS, JS, etc., those are usually just deployed alongside the binary.
matheweis 11y ago
I switched to gogs from GitLab and haven't looked back. The installation literally took 10 minutes including all of the sysadmin work. Main reason was the resource utilization of GitLab was just too high. iirc, it was actually the CEO of GitLab that recommended the switch... ;)
- sytse 11y ago
  Yes, if you are resource constrained (less than 2GB of memory) and using it privately I think Gogs is a great choice.
  - matheweis 11y ago
    Has been so far, thanks again for the recommendation!
  - mh-cx 11y ago
    Sorry, but even with 2GB Gitlab is painfully slow. And it also happens on gitlab.com where I assume resources are optimized. Loading times of up to 3 seconds for a stupid list of issues are not really acceptable for a web application in 2016. In fact, they never were.
    - sytse 11y ago
      GitLab.com is slow because of operational issues, like everything running from one NFS server. GitLab on your own server with enough memory should be fast. The slowness of GitLab.com is unacceptable to us, work to improve it is ongoing in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42
reactor 11y ago
https://notabug.org/ https://notabug.org/ on a fork of Gogs
Mahn 11y ago
> How to use downloads? > 1. Extract the archive. > 2. cd into the directory just created. > 3. Execute ./gogs web and you’re done. Can't beat the simplicity of running Go applications. It's funny because running a compiled binary is so incredibly basic to computing, and yet 90% of the time installing a new shiny toy in a server involves dealing with 342525 dependencies, half of which broke because god knows what dependency wasn't targeting the right version. And you sit there debugging dependencies and errors and pulling your hair for two hours, trying to get someone else's mess to work, wondering how did we get this so wrong.
- gnuvince 11y ago
  A lot of Java software is "(1) download the jar file, (2) java -jar thefile.jar". Agree it's good for the user, but when people talk about distributing a statically-linked program the "what about security updates" question invariably comes up.
  - matt_wulfeck 11y ago
    It is still easier with static compiles if you ask me: "Make sure you're running Gogs 1.64.2 or above" "Make sure you're running Gogs 1.64.2, OpenSSL 1.2e, libcrypt 3.73, leftpad 2.0..." Especially when the deployment of said binaries doesn't involve anything installed on the host OS.
    - raimue 11y ago
      "Make sure you run Foo 1.7, Bar 2.1, Baz 2.3, ..." "Make sure you update to OpenSSL 1.2e and restart all services." If you think of more than one program using the same module, shared libraries make a lot of sense.
      - chm 11y ago
        They do, but static linking means the developer actually does have control of the environment. What happens if you ship the latest and greatest binary but the shared libraries aren't updated by the user?
mmoya 11y ago
Eagerly waiting for 2FA https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/945 https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/945
fiatjaf 11y ago
Does it run on Heroku?
- simonw 11y ago
  Probably not without major changes - it looks like it stores a lot of stuff (including gir repos and uploaded attachment files) on the file system.
Bedon292 11y ago
I have been using gogs at home for a few months now as well. It has been great for all of my needs. Like version controlling little python scripts I am playing around with, or my resume, term papers, etc in LaTeX. Stuff that will never be public that I would like to have a little more control over.
- StavrosK 11y ago
  Yes! I've been using it for this purpose as well, and I love it. Easy to install/update, great GUI for all my needs, and runs on my home server. If you aren't using it at home, you need to start yesterday.
_1 11y ago
Why is software still being named for the language it was written in?
- voidlogic 11y ago
  For everyday software this is fair, but is software made FOR DEVELOPERS. All things being equal between two solutions, I am going to take the one implemented technology I know and can hack on easier. Also, many of the most popular solutions in this space are written in what some people would call "low performance languages", since the author here is using a "high performance language", its just good marketing too.
- joeblau 11y ago
  I thought it was because of "Go"ogle but then I clicked though the link. It's pretty interesting that they've launched this because I feel like this is GitHub's bread and butter for enterprise.
- weberc2 11y ago
  So the haters at /r/programming know to stay away?
ausjke 11y ago
the installation doc is not complete, at least not so simple like a 'unzip; ./gogs web', you need create a database, set up users etc, those really should be documented for a good first-time experience. also after installation it refreshes into localhost:3000 instead of my-remote-host:3000, so you have a dead page after the installation. yes they're easy to fix, but it's good if they're documented
qz_ 11y ago
I wonder if Gogs will have to change its ui.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374786
- tschellenbach 11y ago
  They should. Github obviously spent countless hours perfecting their UI. Other apps shouldn't be allowed to copy it. (I have no affiliation with Github, other than that I'm a developer and respect the hard work they've put into their product.)
  - Spivak 11y ago
    Does the argument really change if they spent a weekend on the UI?
    - shimon 11y ago
      Yes, because if the design is trivial, or obvious given the problem domain, then the thing being copied doesn't meet the bar for being a creative work.
      - deleted 11y ago
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      - ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
        Good design is obvious because you can reuse many existing ideas. What if you had to redesign tabs, search field, logos bringing you to homepage, scrollbars, buttons, focus, text cursor and all the other things from scratch? If there is no objective way to set the bar you mentioned, we end up with double standard.
  - ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
    It is even worse than copyrighted APIs. Such attitude will allow Microsoft to sue KDE for Windows look-and-feel and LibreOffice for Office look-and-feel, even without patents. Good features and ideas should be copied as widely as possible instead of reinventing the wheel for the sake of difference.
gramakri 11y ago
(Pitching my own company https://cloudron.io https://cloudron.io here) If you want a single click install on a _private_ server and with a custom domain - https://cloudron.io/appstore.html?app=io.gogs.cloudronapp https://cloudron.io/appstore.html?app=io.gogs.cloudronapp. We track Gogs releases actively and keep it up to date with no effort on your part. My own repos are hosted on gogs - https://git.girish.in https://git.girish.in Edit: Since I got asked a couple of times about this (wow, you guys are fast), anyone can write apps for the Cloudron. It's docker based and you can find the Gogs app code here https://github.com/cloudron-io/gogs-app https://github.com/cloudron-io/gogs-app
- fiatjaf 11y ago
  How does this relate to that other similar tool the name I just forgot?
  - gramakri 11y ago
    Sorry, which tool :-) ? Docker compose? Cloudron gives you a private server (we use DigitalOcean right now) on which you can install web apps. We automate everything about maintaining your server - DNS, certs, app updates, backups etc. In short, we want to make it possible for everyone to have their own server. Cloudron is more a consumer product than a development tool (of course, we have tooling that enables developers to create apps).
    - kbaker 11y ago
      Maybe sandstorm.io? https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/d9ygf47xrtnw12j92cyt6cu8ut75esx01u4q3kcrn8415w9qzzgh https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/d9ygf47xrtnw12j92cyt6cu8ut75es...
      - gramakri 11y ago
        The products are similar. Do give both of them a try. We have a demo at: https://my-demo.cloudron.me https://my-demo.cloudron.me (username: cloudron password: cloudron)
ksec 11y ago
Is there any Gogs.com hosted version?
- jittermark 11y ago
  Nope. They have an instance at https://try.gogs.io https://try.gogs.io but it's only a demo. The only public instance that I'm aware of is http://notabug.org http://notabug.org but - they only accept free projects - they're still using a very old version of Gogs
- of 11y ago
  Yeah, there's https://notabug.org/ https://notabug.org/
jeromenerf 11y ago
I use gogs and github. Both are great git backends, featuring simple collaboration management. The issues and wiki however feels too primitive to be useful. I can't really decide if they are already bloated or if they have not reached MVP yet. Anyway, I would love to see better integration on both with their mandatory complements, such as kanban, CI, ...
mohsinr 11y ago
Github killer free app is on Github :)
djhworld 11y ago
I've been running this on my raspberry pi for a few months now, it works great!
11mariom 11y ago
Do you know any Continous Integrations which fits well with Gogs? Something small, easy to setup, easy to use. Just as Gogs is. All I want - integration with git/gogs (webhook?), status page (with detailed build/test info, especialy for fails), status image (for readme in gogs).
mrmondo 11y ago
I use gogs at home, but run Gitlab At work - it just has so more many more features and far more customisable - also Gitlab CI rocks, it seems to scale really well - 60 active developers on a tiny vm and its lightening quick and we can easily do more than 100 releases a day.
- sytse 11y ago
  Glad to hear that you like GitLab CI. Continuous Delivery FTW!

341 points by of 11y ago

idoom 11y ago

Thumbs up, docker image (https://github.com/gogits/gogs/tree/master/docker https://github.com/gogits/gogs/tree/master/docker) works great and is easy to setup. I've had it running for a while on a machine and stopped paying for github :)

ihowlatthemoon 11y ago

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210978

FiloSottile 11y ago

For extra ease and security (two things not often found together!) try setting it up in a Sandstorm server, works with one click and is sandboxed from the rest of your server. https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/

pellucide 11y ago
Took me about 3 minutes to have it running on a free account.

Rapzid 11y ago

How viable would alternate backends be? Like say, AWS CodeCommit?

fweespee_ch 11y ago

If anyone is interested in trying it, the packages are pretty good at keeping your installation up to date: https://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_packages https://gogs.io/docs/installation/install_from_packages It is what I use for my misc things at home.

Udo 11y ago

I've been using Gogs now for a few months and can't recommend it enough as opposed to GitLab. It does have some rough edges (for example the many instances where its CSRF protection feature misfires), but generally it's a very solid and performant git frontend. Although a plugin or widget system would be nice, it was also easy to extend the Gogs UI simply by editing its very straight-forward template files.

ddon 11y ago
Would be nice to have a list of features which Gogs offers and GitLab is missing! We are happy using GitLab...
- toolz 11y ago
  I would guess the only feature gogs has over gitlab is low resources and easy install, which for someone like me who does solo side-projects and likes to commit to my home server, is enough reason.
  - endymi0n 11y ago
    That's what has been the deciding part for us in the end. While Gogs is super lightweight, Gitlab is so feature rich, stable and user focused, that it's the only piece of Ruby that's running in our stack. We were right in the decision phase for a CI and had already set up a Jenkins machine when Gitlab integrated their CI which has been super simple, reliable and well integrated so far, no comparison to the monster that Jenkins is. Recent work on performance has been stellar, setup was quick, including backups, and upgrades have been super painless, they really got the important parts nailed down. Can totally recommend it, and it's really got the traction to both catch up with Github and also offer unique features. The pull/merge request workflow isn't as refined and better code review support would be high on my wishlist, but overall it has been a great choice so far with little regrets.
    - sytse 11y ago
      Thanks for your kind words! What do you think we can improve in the pull/merge request workflow and in code review support?
      - nicoster 11y ago
        make ?w=1 a default behavior haven't tried other alternatives but a happy gitlab user. you guys rock. the latest gitlab is much faster.

aaronpk 11y ago

I wrote about how and why I switched to Gogs from GitLab and Bitbucket here: https://aaronparecki.com/2016/02/13/18/ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/02/13/18/

tazjin 11y ago

Been using this for a while now and very happy with it. I decided to stop using Github for personal projects due to political disagreements with the company and the fact that git should really not be centralised. Gogs has probably 95% feature parity with Github and it is a lot faster (is Github still Ruby? That would explain it ...) I run a personal Kubernetes cluster for services and getting Gogs up and running was super-simple: https://git.tazj.in/tazjin/infrastructure/src/master/gogs/gogs-rc.yaml https://git.tazj.in/tazjin/infrastructure/src/master/gogs/go...

mbrock 11y ago
How can you compare speeds when you can't run GitHub on your setup? Running a multimillion user service is vastly different from running your own personal server, right?
- minaguib 11y ago
  End-user usability feel (perceived speed) is all that matters, no ?
  - Touche 11y ago
    Sure, but you can't conclude that the language is the source of GitHub's (relative to this) lesser speed.
paukiatwee 11y ago
Just curious, where (AWS, DO, GCE or other) do you run your Kubernetes cluster ?
- tazjin 11y ago
  GCE, it works extremely well there!
umanwizard 11y ago
Why would ruby explain it? Do you think most of the time you spend waiting for GitHub pages to load is due to CPU load on the application layer? Why would we expect this to be the case?

kevinSuttle 11y ago

It kills me when people build GitHub alternatives that are hosted on GitHub.

skj 11y ago
Why? Github is about distribution and collaboration with a community. This product seems to be about private self-owned hosting.
- kevinSuttle 11y ago
  Then why aren't they hosting on their own product?
  - _1 11y ago
    because most people already have a github account
  - brazzledazzle 11y ago
    Different scale?
  - patrickaljord 11y ago
    Because that would be public hosting, parent just explained that gogs is great at _private_ hosting. When it comes to public hosting of open source projects with network effect, github is still king. I don't think anyone denies that.
  - skj 11y ago
    I'd answer, but I worry you wouldn't read my second reply either.

merpnderp 11y ago

We downloaded and installed Gogs, Gitlab, and Bitbucket. I liked Gogs the best, but Gitlab seemed more enterprise-y, and Bitbucket had an issue we could never figure out. We're trying to replace TFS, so we'll probably end up with Gitlab. But since I was the one doing the installing, I sure wish we'd go with Gogs. It was 5 minutes from start to finish.

sytse 11y ago
What can we improve in GitLab to make it better? Did the install take too long? Did you try our Omnibus packages or a source install?
- coolsunglasses 11y ago
  I've tried and failed three times to get Gitlab to send me a sign-up email. I can't get it to work. I can't figure out how to disable the confirmation emails either. I'd be using a self-hosted Gitlab to try to fix the speed issues but because of this issue, I cannot. So, instead, I'm a refugee on your public service until I convince my coauthor to eat another repository migration to a private Gogs instance. I got gogs working in 5 minutes like OP said. Also Gogs is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> faster. It baffles me that I can be pushing an initial commit to an empty repository and my terminal will hang for 10-15 seconds. What's going on with that?
  - aroch 11y ago
    If you're self-hosting, I would use mailgun with the below config in your /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb https://gist.github.com/ar0ch/b33a9232776504bd83ac https://gist.github.com/ar0ch/b33a9232776504bd83ac
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. Aroch posted a good Mailgun config in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374883 but your post gave me the idea to disable confirmation emails by default https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14684 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14684 I'm not sure what is up with the initial commit issue you describe and made an issue to investigate https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14685 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14685 Thanks again!

empressplay 11y ago

We run Gogs on a bog-standard $10 VPS and it works great; quick, snappy, reliable. Very efficient. Can't recommend it enough. Resource usage matters.

xtacy 11y ago

Kudos on the polished project release. I am relatively new to go, and I am curious about the technology stack behind such a webapp. How does it work under the hood? - How do you develop such web apps with html, css, javascript, go, etc. all interacting with each other? - How are static assets packaged in a single binary? - Any simple tutorial or stack walkthrough you would recommend me reading? thanks!

dejawu 11y ago
- As it happens, this is also on the front page: https://astaxie.gitbooks.io/build-web-application-with-golang/content/en/preface.html https://astaxie.gitbooks.io/build-web-application-with-golan... - I also recommend going through Go's example wiki tutorial: https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/ - By default, Go binaries are statically linked. If by static assets you mean CSS, JS, etc., those are usually just deployed alongside the binary.

matheweis 11y ago

I switched to gogs from GitLab and haven't looked back. The installation literally took 10 minutes including all of the sysadmin work. Main reason was the resource utilization of GitLab was just too high. iirc, it was actually the CEO of GitLab that recommended the switch... ;)

sytse 11y ago
Yes, if you are resource constrained (less than 2GB of memory) and using it privately I think Gogs is a great choice.
- matheweis 11y ago
  Has been so far, thanks again for the recommendation!
- mh-cx 11y ago
  Sorry, but even with 2GB Gitlab is painfully slow. And it also happens on gitlab.com where I assume resources are optimized. Loading times of up to 3 seconds for a stupid list of issues are not really acceptable for a web application in 2016. In fact, they never were.
  - sytse 11y ago
    GitLab.com is slow because of operational issues, like everything running from one NFS server. GitLab on your own server with enough memory should be fast. The slowness of GitLab.com is unacceptable to us, work to improve it is ongoing in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

reactor 11y ago

https://notabug.org/ https://notabug.org/ on a fork of Gogs

Mahn 11y ago

> How to use downloads? > 1. Extract the archive. > 2. cd into the directory just created. > 3. Execute ./gogs web and you’re done. Can't beat the simplicity of running Go applications. It's funny because running a compiled binary is so incredibly basic to computing, and yet 90% of the time installing a new shiny toy in a server involves dealing with 342525 dependencies, half of which broke because god knows what dependency wasn't targeting the right version. And you sit there debugging dependencies and errors and pulling your hair for two hours, trying to get someone else's mess to work, wondering how did we get this so wrong.

gnuvince 11y ago
A lot of Java software is "(1) download the jar file, (2) java -jar thefile.jar". Agree it's good for the user, but when people talk about distributing a statically-linked program the "what about security updates" question invariably comes up.
- matt_wulfeck 11y ago
  It is still easier with static compiles if you ask me: "Make sure you're running Gogs 1.64.2 or above" "Make sure you're running Gogs 1.64.2, OpenSSL 1.2e, libcrypt 3.73, leftpad 2.0..." Especially when the deployment of said binaries doesn't involve anything installed on the host OS.
  - raimue 11y ago
    "Make sure you run Foo 1.7, Bar 2.1, Baz 2.3, ..." "Make sure you update to OpenSSL 1.2e and restart all services." If you think of more than one program using the same module, shared libraries make a lot of sense.
    - chm 11y ago
      They do, but static linking means the developer actually does have control of the environment. What happens if you ship the latest and greatest binary but the shared libraries aren't updated by the user?

mmoya 11y ago

Eagerly waiting for 2FA https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/945 https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/945

fiatjaf 11y ago

Does it run on Heroku?

simonw 11y ago
Probably not without major changes - it looks like it stores a lot of stuff (including gir repos and uploaded attachment files) on the file system.

Bedon292 11y ago

I have been using gogs at home for a few months now as well. It has been great for all of my needs. Like version controlling little python scripts I am playing around with, or my resume, term papers, etc in LaTeX. Stuff that will never be public that I would like to have a little more control over.

StavrosK 11y ago
Yes! I've been using it for this purpose as well, and I love it. Easy to install/update, great GUI for all my needs, and runs on my home server. If you aren't using it at home, you need to start yesterday.

_1 11y ago

Why is software still being named for the language it was written in?

voidlogic 11y ago
For everyday software this is fair, but is software made FOR DEVELOPERS. All things being equal between two solutions, I am going to take the one implemented technology I know and can hack on easier. Also, many of the most popular solutions in this space are written in what some people would call "low performance languages", since the author here is using a "high performance language", its just good marketing too.
joeblau 11y ago
I thought it was because of "Go"ogle but then I clicked though the link. It's pretty interesting that they've launched this because I feel like this is GitHub's bread and butter for enterprise.
weberc2 11y ago
So the haters at /r/programming know to stay away?

ausjke 11y ago

the installation doc is not complete, at least not so simple like a 'unzip; ./gogs web', you need create a database, set up users etc, those really should be documented for a good first-time experience. also after installation it refreshes into localhost:3000 instead of my-remote-host:3000, so you have a dead page after the installation. yes they're easy to fix, but it's good if they're documented

qz_ 11y ago

I wonder if Gogs will have to change its ui.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374786

tschellenbach 11y ago
They should. Github obviously spent countless hours perfecting their UI. Other apps shouldn't be allowed to copy it. (I have no affiliation with Github, other than that I'm a developer and respect the hard work they've put into their product.)
- Spivak 11y ago
  Does the argument really change if they spent a weekend on the UI?
  - shimon 11y ago
    Yes, because if the design is trivial, or obvious given the problem domain, then the thing being copied doesn't meet the bar for being a creative work.
    - deleted 11y ago
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    - ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
      Good design is obvious because you can reuse many existing ideas. What if you had to redesign tabs, search field, logos bringing you to homepage, scrollbars, buttons, focus, text cursor and all the other things from scratch? If there is no objective way to set the bar you mentioned, we end up with double standard.
- ycmbntrthrwaway 11y ago
  It is even worse than copyrighted APIs. Such attitude will allow Microsoft to sue KDE for Windows look-and-feel and LibreOffice for Office look-and-feel, even without patents. Good features and ideas should be copied as widely as possible instead of reinventing the wheel for the sake of difference.

gramakri 11y ago

(Pitching my own company https://cloudron.io https://cloudron.io here) If you want a single click install on a _private_ server and with a custom domain - https://cloudron.io/appstore.html?app=io.gogs.cloudronapp https://cloudron.io/appstore.html?app=io.gogs.cloudronapp. We track Gogs releases actively and keep it up to date with no effort on your part. My own repos are hosted on gogs - https://git.girish.in https://git.girish.in Edit: Since I got asked a couple of times about this (wow, you guys are fast), anyone can write apps for the Cloudron. It's docker based and you can find the Gogs app code here https://github.com/cloudron-io/gogs-app https://github.com/cloudron-io/gogs-app

fiatjaf 11y ago
How does this relate to that other similar tool the name I just forgot?
- gramakri 11y ago
  Sorry, which tool :-) ? Docker compose? Cloudron gives you a private server (we use DigitalOcean right now) on which you can install web apps. We automate everything about maintaining your server - DNS, certs, app updates, backups etc. In short, we want to make it possible for everyone to have their own server. Cloudron is more a consumer product than a development tool (of course, we have tooling that enables developers to create apps).
  - kbaker 11y ago
    Maybe sandstorm.io? https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/d9ygf47xrtnw12j92cyt6cu8ut75esx01u4q3kcrn8415w9qzzgh https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/d9ygf47xrtnw12j92cyt6cu8ut75es...
    - gramakri 11y ago
      The products are similar. Do give both of them a try. We have a demo at: https://my-demo.cloudron.me https://my-demo.cloudron.me (username: cloudron password: cloudron)

ksec 11y ago

Is there any Gogs.com hosted version?

jittermark 11y ago
Nope. They have an instance at https://try.gogs.io https://try.gogs.io but it's only a demo. The only public instance that I'm aware of is http://notabug.org http://notabug.org but - they only accept free projects - they're still using a very old version of Gogs
of 11y ago
Yeah, there's https://notabug.org/ https://notabug.org/

jeromenerf 11y ago

I use gogs and github. Both are great git backends, featuring simple collaboration management. The issues and wiki however feels too primitive to be useful. I can't really decide if they are already bloated or if they have not reached MVP yet. Anyway, I would love to see better integration on both with their mandatory complements, such as kanban, CI, ...

mohsinr 11y ago

Github killer free app is on Github :)

djhworld 11y ago

I've been running this on my raspberry pi for a few months now, it works great!

11mariom 11y ago

Do you know any Continous Integrations which fits well with Gogs? Something small, easy to setup, easy to use. Just as Gogs is. All I want - integration with git/gogs (webhook?), status page (with detailed build/test info, especialy for fails), status image (for readme in gogs).

mrmondo 11y ago

I use gogs at home, but run Gitlab At work - it just has so more many more features and far more customisable - also Gitlab CI rocks, it seems to scale really well - 60 active developers on a tiny vm and its lightening quick and we can easily do more than 100 releases a day.

sytse 11y ago
Glad to hear that you like GitLab CI. Continuous Delivery FTW!