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Hello,

Is there a good place to host a little FOSS project elsewhere than github?

I'd especially like an open source community.

Cheers

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

GitLab, gitea, gitbucket, bitbucket there are many.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

There’s also codeberg.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Codeberg. It's open source and completely free (as in beer as well).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Now that seems like it'd fit my shoe!

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Be the cool kid on the block and start hosting your own forgejo instance.

Did Azure DevOps (yuck), did GitHub (meh) now very happy with forgejo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

+1 for forgejo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Still kinda trying to figure out how forgejo is any different from gitea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They did an announcement when the project was started; https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/

The main reason being

We started Forgejo in reaction to control of Gitea being taken away from the community by the newly-formed for-profit company Gitea Ltd without prior community consultation

Codeberg uses Forgejo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Software wise, it's not. The difference is in transparency and ownership

https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can confirm, forgejo is a good, very lightweight git server you can run on an rpi with room to spare. I'm running with postgresql as backend on the same rpi, mariadb is an option as well.

When you don't want to selfhost, gitlab is independant and EU (NL?) based, bitbucket is from atlasian (US?) and is also an option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, TIL moment. (Gitlab is Dutch, Github is bought by Microsoft were already a while back on the TIL list)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People seem to forget how much time and energy self hosting needs. Especially for code, I would want some redundancy, backups and security. Yet another server you have to take care off. I‘d recommend to stick to codeberg, even though forgejo looks very good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I totally agree, but this depends. It helps if you have backups already in place, if a few additional containers or VM's won't matter much etc.

Running forgejo and runners took me way less effort than properly setting up sendmail for instance.

It all depends on skills, resources etc. Everyone needs to make these decisions themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

less effort than properly setting up sendmail

My brother in *nix, while I agree with your conclusion, that bar is so low you can't use it for limbo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Well, early '90s and pretty much without any documentation apart from the source it was quite a struggle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

My go-to right now is GitLab, I even run an instance.

Another one that has caught my attention was onedev.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Codeberg would be my vote. Or Soucehut

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just set up a little repo there!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You can't go wrong with Sourceforge