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Gitea (originally a fork of Gogs) is moving fast, and they are adding ActivityPub federation support to the software. This will allow you to collaborate with pr

by rapnie 4y ago

Gitea (originally a fork of Gogs) is moving fast, and they are adding ActivityPub federation support to the software. This will allow you to collaborate with projects hosted on remote Gitea instances (and other software once they add federation support too). If you are working on FOSS then Codeberg [1] is a good Gitea instance, which offer Woodpecker CI and Codeberg Pages. [1] https://codeberg.org https://codeberg.org

jarbus 4y ago
Was just about to say this, I’m so excited for Gitea to get federation support and think they could really give GitHub a run for their money. I think a lot of major foss projects would switch over to a self hosted instance if it didn’t require users to create an additional account for every instance
dividedbyzero 4y ago
I believe the Gitea people are also about to add an artifact registry feature. I run a Gitea instance on my Synology to act as a source for flux2 on the living room Kubernetes cluster. I don't want to have that on Github so it'll all work without internet connectivity (still a WIP though). I had my own Gitlab for a long time but at some point its hunger for resources made it uneconomic for my use case. Gitea does less but in a fraction of the resources.
- rglullis 4y ago
  I've been using gitea for a while now and still recommend it, I just wish they didn't go the gitlab route and started doing everything and the kitchen sink. They would be better off if they just focused on the federation part and let everything else outside of hosting to other specialized tools.
DoctorDabadedoo 4y ago
Gitea is love. There are not a lot of shenanigans and it just does the job. If you want vcs with an online interface it's great for personal use and smaller teams. If you want fancier stuff like integrated CI/CD that is more common out there, Gitlab is an option, but running it by yourself it's not as simple (as gitea), for example.
- sieabah 4y ago
  Gitlab is extremely simple to run yourself. I've been doing it for 2 years at this point. What is really difficult about the operation?
  - DoctorDabadedoo 4y ago
    Not really difficult per se, but more of anecdotal experience of needing dedicated time to maintain it internally. In a smaller company a few years back, whenever an update was due we would have some down time after it and someone had to spend a morning checking the server/dependencies/configs, this was around 2016. Apart from that, a fact is that gitea is less resource hungry, so it runs well even in modest configurations.
synergy20 4y ago
same here, gitea for a few years, works great for all my personal git repos. it's essentially my own github/gitlab that runs off one binary.

by rapnie 4y ago

jarbus 4y ago

Was just about to say this, I’m so excited for Gitea to get federation support and think they could really give GitHub a run for their money. I think a lot of major foss projects would switch over to a self hosted instance if it didn’t require users to create an additional account for every instance

dividedbyzero 4y ago

I believe the Gitea people are also about to add an artifact registry feature. I run a Gitea instance on my Synology to act as a source for flux2 on the living room Kubernetes cluster. I don't want to have that on Github so it'll all work without internet connectivity (still a WIP though). I had my own Gitlab for a long time but at some point its hunger for resources made it uneconomic for my use case. Gitea does less but in a fraction of the resources.

rglullis 4y ago
I've been using gitea for a while now and still recommend it, I just wish they didn't go the gitlab route and started doing everything and the kitchen sink. They would be better off if they just focused on the federation part and let everything else outside of hosting to other specialized tools.

DoctorDabadedoo 4y ago

Gitea is love. There are not a lot of shenanigans and it just does the job. If you want vcs with an online interface it's great for personal use and smaller teams. If you want fancier stuff like integrated CI/CD that is more common out there, Gitlab is an option, but running it by yourself it's not as simple (as gitea), for example.

sieabah 4y ago
Gitlab is extremely simple to run yourself. I've been doing it for 2 years at this point. What is really difficult about the operation?
- DoctorDabadedoo 4y ago
  Not really difficult per se, but more of anecdotal experience of needing dedicated time to maintain it internally. In a smaller company a few years back, whenever an update was due we would have some down time after it and someone had to spend a morning checking the server/dependencies/configs, this was around 2016. Apart from that, a fact is that gitea is less resource hungry, so it runs well even in modest configurations.

synergy20 4y ago

same here, gitea for a few years, works great for all my personal git repos. it's essentially my own github/gitlab that runs off one binary.