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Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

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Re: Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

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Post by tboerger »

platz wrote: post #71

Open source software tends to be plauged by UX, css, design, spacing/padding/margin & typeface issues which makes it somewhat grating to use, which I mention after browsing around the the gitea test instance for a bit.

Maybe this is the case because free projects not backed by a company can't pay a professional frontend engineer :)

Re: Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

#74

Post by tboerger »

kbumsik wrote: post #72

By looking at README and the original Gogs project, it looks like these projects are gaining some attention in China. It is quite interesting for me when these are written in Go which is Google’s proejct blocked by the Chinese government.

Go is used a lot in China. And even the initial author of Gogs and the guy who initialized the fork are Chinese :).

Re: Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

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Post by ruffrey »

I played around with the test instance of this on their website. It is very impressive. It seems to have the 90% of features that most people use github for, and it hosted easily. Certainly worth a look in my next startup when considering whether we want to self host our own codebase.

Re: Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

#77

Post by nik736 »

VikingCoder wrote: post #38
nik736 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap or quality standards, he is also not the most responsive during times this is why some people created Gitea. I am still using Gogs personally.

> or quality standards You say that like it's a bad thing.

No, I was stating that I use Gogs (because I actually like that philosophy), not sure what you are talking about.

Re: Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

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Post by tboerger »

tiffanyh wrote: post #76

Gitea will get much more recognition for their great efforts once they are self-hosted. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029

I wouldn't say that directly, maybe it gains more trust because it's serving on their own code, but maybe this could also decrease the contributions because the people got to authenticate on just another system to contribute something.

We will see how well this works out, most required features are already there, the remaining will follow soonish.

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