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GitLab is great - but super fat. The performance will suffer heavily if you don't give it the resources it wants (all RAM you can find, lol). If you only need

GitLab is great - but super fat. The performance will suffer heavily if you don't give it the resources it wants (all RAM you can find, lol). If you only need Git plus project tracking Gitea is super mature. It runs happily on small VPS.

notpushkin 1y ago
Gitea is neat, and the Actions compatibility is promising. Though I’d suggest a fork, Forgejo: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/ https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/
- Catbert59 1y ago
  Thank you for the recommendation. Will move to that fork in one of my future private infrastructure reconstructions.
- kriops 1y ago
  I want to signal boost the following quote from the URL above: > Forgejo was created in October 2022 after a for profit company took over the Gitea project. It exists under the umbrella of a non-profit organization, Codeberg e.V. and is developed in the interest of the general public. In the year that followed, this difference in governance led to choices that made Forgejo significantly and durably different from Gitea. If you take it at face value (at your peril), Gitea is about to start enshittification, while Forgejo will not at any point. My personal opinion, is that this is credible.
  - tonyhart7 1y ago
    isn't that gitlab also for profit company???
    - notpushkin 1y ago
      They are, and always were. I think we’re more accustomized to it though, and know they won’t try to pull some shenanigans with the CE at least. I guess Codeberg didn’t trust Gitea in the same way when they decided to fork, but I think as a result Forgejo would be more sustainable, them being a nonprofit and all.
    - kriops 1y ago
      Gitlab didn’t arguably and allegedly hijack an established oss brand for their core product.
kstrauser 1y ago
I prefer Forgejo, but both it and Gitea support actions like GitHub's. You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. I adore it for personal projects.
- mdaniel 1y ago
  > Gitea support actions like GitHub's Citation needed. nektos/act is for sure not "like GitHub's"
  - milliams 1y ago
    Yes it is. It's not identical, but it is "like" it.
    - cowmix 1y ago
      Most of my build config run on either platform (Gitea and Github) interchangeably.
  - kstrauser 1y ago
    Here's Gitea's own comparison to GitHub's Actions: https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/comparison https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/comparison Sure, it's not identical, and no one claims it is. I think it's defensibly like them, though.
  - dboreham 1y ago
    We've run Gitea actions (and contributed here and there) for a couple of years, since-by-side with Github. We host in containers on the Gitea side so there are some marginal differences as to what can be run in a job, but our experience has been very positive.
- ctz 1y ago
  > You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. Interested! Some detail on how you achieve this for free would be great.
scubbo 1y ago
I bounced away from Gitea because they don't (last time I checked) have OIDC. I started[0] trying to revive-and-drive a previous PR[1] to add it, but the test failures are beyond my motivation to investigate and resolve. [0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/33945 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/33945 [1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/25664 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/25664
- smcin 1y ago
  OIDC = OpenID Connect, an open authentication protocol
maxloh 1y ago
Gitea's UI is ugly. While GitHub and GitLab have dedicated design and front-end teams to improve their UI/UX, Gitea and Forgejo aren't large enough to reach that scale, even after Gitea became a company. For example, look at the number of issues triaged with "UX" [0] or "UX Paper Cut" [1] on GitLab. It is an order of magnitude larger than you would find in any other FOSS option. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=UX https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B... [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=UX%20Paper%20Cuts https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B...
- nik736 1y ago
  Sorry but the GitLab UI was bad, is bad, the whole software feels clunky and slow to use and everything is nested where in comparison Gitea is simple, intuitive and straightforward, just like the old Github days. I also don't know if it's a good sign that there are a lot of UX issues?

notpushkin 1y ago

Gitea is neat, and the Actions compatibility is promising. Though I’d suggest a fork, Forgejo: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/ https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

Catbert59 1y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. Will move to that fork in one of my future private infrastructure reconstructions.
kriops 1y ago
I want to signal boost the following quote from the URL above: > Forgejo was created in October 2022 after a for profit company took over the Gitea project. It exists under the umbrella of a non-profit organization, Codeberg e.V. and is developed in the interest of the general public. In the year that followed, this difference in governance led to choices that made Forgejo significantly and durably different from Gitea. If you take it at face value (at your peril), Gitea is about to start enshittification, while Forgejo will not at any point. My personal opinion, is that this is credible.
- tonyhart7 1y ago
  isn't that gitlab also for profit company???
  - notpushkin 1y ago
    They are, and always were. I think we’re more accustomized to it though, and know they won’t try to pull some shenanigans with the CE at least. I guess Codeberg didn’t trust Gitea in the same way when they decided to fork, but I think as a result Forgejo would be more sustainable, them being a nonprofit and all.
  - kriops 1y ago
    Gitlab didn’t arguably and allegedly hijack an established oss brand for their core product.

kstrauser 1y ago

I prefer Forgejo, but both it and Gitea support actions like GitHub's. You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. I adore it for personal projects.

mdaniel 1y ago
> Gitea support actions like GitHub's Citation needed. nektos/act is for sure not "like GitHub's"
- milliams 1y ago
  Yes it is. It's not identical, but it is "like" it.
  - cowmix 1y ago
    Most of my build config run on either platform (Gitea and Github) interchangeably.
- kstrauser 1y ago
  Here's Gitea's own comparison to GitHub's Actions: https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/comparison https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/comparison Sure, it's not identical, and no one claims it is. I think it's defensibly like them, though.
- dboreham 1y ago
  We've run Gitea actions (and contributed here and there) for a couple of years, since-by-side with Github. We host in containers on the Gitea side so there are some marginal differences as to what can be run in a job, but our experience has been very positive.
ctz 1y ago
> You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. Interested! Some detail on how you achieve this for free would be great.

scubbo 1y ago

I bounced away from Gitea because they don't (last time I checked) have OIDC. I started[0] trying to revive-and-drive a previous PR[1] to add it, but the test failures are beyond my motivation to investigate and resolve. [0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/33945 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/33945 [1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/25664 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/25664

smcin 1y ago
OIDC = OpenID Connect, an open authentication protocol

maxloh 1y ago

Gitea's UI is ugly. While GitHub and GitLab have dedicated design and front-end teams to improve their UI/UX, Gitea and Forgejo aren't large enough to reach that scale, even after Gitea became a company. For example, look at the number of issues triaged with "UX" [0] or "UX Paper Cut" [1] on GitLab. It is an order of magnitude larger than you would find in any other FOSS option. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=UX https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B... [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=UX%20Paper%20Cuts https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?label_name%5B...

nik736 1y ago
Sorry but the GitLab UI was bad, is bad, the whole software feels clunky and slow to use and everything is nested where in comparison Gitea is simple, intuitive and straightforward, just like the old Github days. I also don't know if it's a good sign that there are a lot of UX issues?