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[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

How bad is GitLab (selfhosted) in this context?

[โ€“] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] lena@gregtech.eu 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's open source, open source is global. Doesn't matter where the main dev is from if it's self hosted.

[โ€“] 0x0@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Global as the team may be, they'll have to follow laws of the country the company's from.
Self-hosted can ameliorate.

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I just set up Forgejo as base installation, so if GitLab does some bullshit, I can at least easily migrate to it

[โ€“] undone@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Personally I think we don't have to be perfect in this. Migrating from the bigger services to self-hosted instances is a win in my book.

There was this famous quote - originally in the context of waste reduction - that got some traction within this movement too:

"We donโ€™t need a handful of people doing (zero waste) perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectlyโ€™


In this context I personally prefer Gitea. Very lightweight and straight forward to self-host.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Forgejo is a hard fork of gitea that occured after the leadership took private control of the logo and branding, started developing proprietary add-ons, and building a business around it.

Forgejo is developed under Codeberg e.v. which is a German non-profit.

I think it's still a drop-in replacement for gitea.

[โ€“] undone@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Thank you so much for that background info! Will migrate my Gitea instance to Forgejo. Was quite fresh anyway, better do it now than later.

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Huge parts of the sample config still say "gitea" as parts of names etc.

[โ€“] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

By what I usually read it's really hard to keep it running since gitlab takes a lot of resources. Go with it if you have the hardware and human resources to maintain it. I used gitlab hosted on premises in a company I worked at some years ago, it was nice, but I was just using it, not the poor infrastructure guy.

[โ€“] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

I already have one, and apart from some clashes with Arch's usual file hierarchy, it was smooth. But I just noticed that dinkleberg.org is ... was available, and I think it would be worth it to set up a forgejo instance, as a comedic pendant to the official codeberg.org instance, and to see which one works better in the end. But at last, once they fully implement federation, I'll switch fully. Arch has a wiki page and a packaged version ready anyway, and it can use my already set up postgres, so just more of a reason to look into it further.