> software is its tendency to mutate in ways I don't like, outside of my control. Totally this. I'm actually migrating my org away from gitlab to self hosted g

> software is its tendency to mutate in ways I don't like, outside of my control. Totally this. I'm actually migrating my org away from gitlab to self hosted gitea for this reason. We are all pretty fed up of the UI changing all the time, the UX complexity, and constantly being pushed towards CI features we have no interest in or need for. I don't particularly like the look of what's been happening on github either. Gitea - even on a frickin nanode - is way faster and more responsive than our paid gitlab service. The only tricky part is reorganising a large number of hierarchical groups to the more flat organisation of gitea. Once you are already running a bunch of infrastructure, one more server is nothing. I've also found it much easier to take on new services once I moved my backup strategy to ZFS, where the entire backup is at the storage layer and databases no longer need special treatment beyond tuning for an atomic file system.