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Do you have experience with self-hosting Guitea? I am on to fence about going with Gitea because of the recent fork of the project (Forgejo). Seems that many co

Do you have experience with self-hosting Guitea? I am on to fence about going with Gitea because of the recent fork of the project (Forgejo). Seems that many contributors are now contributing mainly to Forgejo.

indigochill 3y ago
The reason for the fork was that Gitea was going for-profit and the folks that forked to Forgejo felt they went about that transition in a way that eroded trust. Here's their explanation: https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html
dismalpedigree 3y ago
I self host Gitea. Very reliable. Painless setup. I wish it had some sort of CI like github actions or bitbucket pipelines, but otherwise totally happy wit it.
- n3storm 3y ago
  It's been added recently. Not sure how they compare.
  - v3ss0n 3y ago
    GitHub actions works in gittea at version 1.19
- KronisLV 3y ago
  > I wish it had some sort of CI like github actions or bitbucket pipeline I use Gitea with Drone CI and it works pretty well: https://www.drone.io/ https://www.drone.io/ Some might also prefer the Woodpecker CI fork due to the license: https://woodpecker-ci.org/ https://woodpecker-ci.org/ I setup Drone as a part of my migration away from GitLab Omnibus and have no complaints so far: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-nexus-and-drone https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-... Here's the Drone example in particular: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/moving-from-gitlab-ci-to-drone-ci https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/moving-from-gitlab-ci-to-d...
- eyegor 3y ago
  Just self host the community edition of gitlab. It's miles better than gitea. It's got ci pipelines, it's got a pretty robust issue tracker, it's got wiki pages, it'll integrate with ldap/ad for authentication, it's got a package repository for self hosting libraries, it's got releases, it's got a service desk to make email -> ticket pipelines, etc.
  - renonce 3y ago
    GitLab CE is far too heavy and requires minimum 4GB to run. Contains lots of componnents including PostgreSQL and Redis and various components and startup takes long. With Gitea I can run it with just 1GB or a raspberry pi. It includes wiki, package repositories and releases as well. ldap, service desk - these are enterprise features that I don't need.
  - silverwind 3y ago
    Gitea has all these features as well, except maybe the last.
  - marcosdumay 3y ago
    > It's miles better than gitea. Gitlab is a crazy setup full of services, with elaborate interdependence, absurd hardware requirements, iffy performance, and all the lack of confidence on security that comes from this (and it only ever running if you use their docker images and don't touch anything). But yeah, it got everything.
tharos47 3y ago
I self-host gitea as a github backup just in case. It's pretty easy and well documented (it's a single executable and you can use sqlite for the database).
phpisthebest 3y ago
Gitea is itself a fork of gogs (Go Git Server) it is functioning like Open Source should, there was a disagreement in how the project was run so it gets forked This used to be more common place when projects were run by people not companies. I wish the practice would come back we need more forks in Free Software
- llanowarelves 3y ago
  It feels bad to "waste" the work that could have otherwise gone into highly-paid billable hours, or at least charity work on other repos that get more use.
allarm 3y ago
I self host Gitea both on my home NAS and a DO droplet. I set up repos sync between the instances, it works flawlessly. I've moved the most of my projects off Github/Gitlab and overall I'm very happy with it.
james-skemp 3y ago
I've got Gitea running on a $5 Vultr instance and it's great. Upgrades have been painless. Doesn't tax the server. Was using Gitea when that fork happened and didn't see a reason to migrate. Looked very much like poor communication on the behalf of Gitea causing a misunderstanding.

indigochill 3y ago

The reason for the fork was that Gitea was going for-profit and the folks that forked to Forgejo felt they went about that transition in a way that eroded trust. Here's their explanation: https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

dismalpedigree 3y ago

I self host Gitea. Very reliable. Painless setup. I wish it had some sort of CI like github actions or bitbucket pipelines, but otherwise totally happy wit it.

n3storm 3y ago
It's been added recently. Not sure how they compare.
- v3ss0n 3y ago
  GitHub actions works in gittea at version 1.19
KronisLV 3y ago
> I wish it had some sort of CI like github actions or bitbucket pipeline I use Gitea with Drone CI and it works pretty well: https://www.drone.io/ https://www.drone.io/ Some might also prefer the Woodpecker CI fork due to the license: https://woodpecker-ci.org/ https://woodpecker-ci.org/ I setup Drone as a part of my migration away from GitLab Omnibus and have no complaints so far: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-nexus-and-drone https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-... Here's the Drone example in particular: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/moving-from-gitlab-ci-to-drone-ci https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/moving-from-gitlab-ci-to-d...
eyegor 3y ago
Just self host the community edition of gitlab. It's miles better than gitea. It's got ci pipelines, it's got a pretty robust issue tracker, it's got wiki pages, it'll integrate with ldap/ad for authentication, it's got a package repository for self hosting libraries, it's got releases, it's got a service desk to make email -> ticket pipelines, etc.
- renonce 3y ago
  GitLab CE is far too heavy and requires minimum 4GB to run. Contains lots of componnents including PostgreSQL and Redis and various components and startup takes long. With Gitea I can run it with just 1GB or a raspberry pi. It includes wiki, package repositories and releases as well. ldap, service desk - these are enterprise features that I don't need.
- silverwind 3y ago
  Gitea has all these features as well, except maybe the last.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  > It's miles better than gitea. Gitlab is a crazy setup full of services, with elaborate interdependence, absurd hardware requirements, iffy performance, and all the lack of confidence on security that comes from this (and it only ever running if you use their docker images and don't touch anything). But yeah, it got everything.

tharos47 3y ago

I self-host gitea as a github backup just in case. It's pretty easy and well documented (it's a single executable and you can use sqlite for the database).

phpisthebest 3y ago

Gitea is itself a fork of gogs (Go Git Server) it is functioning like Open Source should, there was a disagreement in how the project was run so it gets forked This used to be more common place when projects were run by people not companies. I wish the practice would come back we need more forks in Free Software

llanowarelves 3y ago
It feels bad to "waste" the work that could have otherwise gone into highly-paid billable hours, or at least charity work on other repos that get more use.

allarm 3y ago

I self host Gitea both on my home NAS and a DO droplet. I set up repos sync between the instances, it works flawlessly. I've moved the most of my projects off Github/Gitlab and overall I'm very happy with it.

james-skemp 3y ago

I've got Gitea running on a $5 Vultr instance and it's great. Upgrades have been painless. Doesn't tax the server. Was using Gitea when that fork happened and didn't see a reason to migrate. Looked very much like poor communication on the behalf of Gitea causing a misunderstanding.