Gitolite is a bare bones git server. Gitea is a forge. They’re not remotely in the same class of software. Gitolite doesn’t even have a web view for the repos,

Gitolite is a bare bones git server. Gitea is a forge. They’re not remotely in the same class of software. Gitolite doesn’t even have a web view for the repos, you need a separate package like cgit for that; never mind project management features.