Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

Post by tboerger » Sun, May 06, 2018, 7:12 PM UTC

Liru wrote: post #95

lobo_tuerto wrote: post #47

Quick comparison from GitHub stats and READMEs: Gogs: 24,564 stars, 602 issues, has a features list. https://github.com/gogits/gogs Gitea: 5,971 stars, 733 issues, doesn't have a features list. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea Gogs features (from README): Activity timeline SSH and HTTP/HTTPS protocols SMTP/LDAP/Reverse proxy authentication Reverse proxy with sub-path Account/Organization/Repository management Add/Re…

> Are users expected to install and find out? When I was looking into switching from Gogs to Gitea, that is exactly what they expected you to do. I recall there being an issue saying that they won't compare the two because it's hard to keep up-to-date. Which is a stupid excuse, considering it's supposed to be a community-based fork instead of run by one person.

Post by cobbzilla » Sun, May 06, 2018, 7:16 PM UTC

naranha wrote: post #120

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #87

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Well gitea/gogs also have code hosting, wikis, issue tracking, and while CI is not tightly integrated it is fairly easy to integrate. So the value has to come from something else :) GitLab has integrated chat and kanban boards so there is other cool stuff in Gitlab but it's not really any of your listed reasons. Edit: I would have to say if I were to choose GitLab the biggest reason would be the UI. The front-end jus…

What would you recommend as CI solution for gitea? I'm looking for something that's self hosted, foss and does not require an admin to set it up for every project. GitLab offers this, but I haven't found anything that competes really.

Post by erikb » Sun, May 06, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

nimbius wrote: post #39

devops sysadmin here. I started with gitlab about a year ago and can honestly say I wish I had taken gogs/gitea instead. The main problem for me is gitlabs utter dearth of somewhat counterproductive features. Git LFS support is almost a cruel joke in gitlab as git operations under the hood now take inexorably more ram to complete. In turn im rewarded with more traditional RCS programmers asking why git has problems w…

Post by warmwaffles » Sun, May 06, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

tboerger wrote: post #89

kazinator wrote: post #78

Where is this self-hosted GitHub alternative itself? According to https://gitea.io/en-US/ : > It’s all on GitHub accompanied by an invitation to join the development there.

As you can see on https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 and on another comment here it's still in the works to host gitea development on gitea instead of github. But nobody in the team wants to do the switch if not all features are available that we rely on today at github.

Post by kakwa_ » Sun, May 06, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #99

mschuster91 wrote: post #88

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> It has to be running OSX because I haven't found any way to run an OSX VM on any other platform. It is fairly easy to get decent OS X virtualization using Debian as base OS and QEMU-KVM for virtualization. You won't have niceties such as GPU acceleration but it will work. Search for "OSX KVM" on Google, it will take you where you want - unfortunately a direct link would expose me to legal liabilities. Also, be warn…

Have you figured out a way to bootstrap it without a Mac? I successfully got an image running under Vbox on Fedora, but I had to build the image first on a Mac and then export it as an appliance. Also, performance was atrocious. It was so bad as to basically make it unusable. 5 second delay before processing mouse and key events.