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Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by oxymoron »

ofrzeta wrote: post #9

Gogs, the project Gitea has been forked off, works just as well. As far as I can see there's no technical reason to prefer the fork over the original. Judging from Github stars, Gogs is also vastly more popular.

I compared them yesterday. There seems to be more development activity and more contributors for Gitea (check the pulse tool on github for the last month). I haven’t got a stake in this whatsoever, but I recall the rationale for the fork being that PR’s would remain unmerged for months without comment due to the inactivity of the original author, who nevertheless wanted to retain control?

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by badminton1 »

ofrzeta wrote: post #9

Gogs, the project Gitea has been forked off, works just as well. As far as I can see there's no technical reason to prefer the fork over the original. Judging from Github stars, Gogs is also vastly more popular.

Find the 7 differences...

- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commits/master

- https://github.com/gogs/gogs/commits/master

gogs is mostly maintained by a single developer, and has less activity than gitea.

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

badminton1 wrote: post #12
ofrzeta wrote: post #9

Gogs, the project Gitea has been forked off, works just as well. As far as I can see there's no technical reason to prefer the fork over the original. Judging from Github stars, Gogs is also vastly more popular.

Find the 7 differences... - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commits/master - https://github.com/gogs/gogs/commits/master gogs is mostly maintained by a single developer, and has less activity than gitea.

A frantic commit free for all isn't necessarily better. I count nine different developers committing to the project's master branch in a single day. That has tradeoffs too.

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by giancarlostoro »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #7

Entertainingly the code is hosted on github. :-) I'd have more confidence in it if it could self-host and I was able to see gitea inside of a gitea instance and that was the main workflow. Like this, it feels like maintainers aren't prepared to eat their own dog food just yet. That's fine, but I'll take a pass until that's fixed.

Well it had to start out somehow. The original project started off on GitHub so it just kinda stayed there. It does cost money to host these type of applications and its easier to have contributions on GitHub since it doesn't require most people to register a new account. It certainly has trade offs for sure.

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by dgellow »

ofrzeta wrote: post #9

Gogs, the project Gitea has been forked off, works just as well. As far as I can see there's no technical reason to prefer the fork over the original. Judging from Github stars, Gogs is also vastly more popular.

Online Gogs demo here: https://gogs.io/

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by mariusmg »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #7

Entertainingly the code is hosted on github. :-) I'd have more confidence in it if it could self-host and I was able to see gitea inside of a gitea instance and that was the main workflow. Like this, it feels like maintainers aren't prepared to eat their own dog food just yet. That's fine, but I'll take a pass until that's fixed.

>Like this, it feels like maintainers aren't prepared to eat their own dog food just yet.

Sorry but that's dumb. Go offer them a decent free server and paid hosting and i'm sure they'll accept your offer.

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by Freak_NL »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #7

Entertainingly the code is hosted on github. :-) I'd have more confidence in it if it could self-host and I was able to see gitea inside of a gitea instance and that was the main workflow. Like this, it feels like maintainers aren't prepared to eat their own dog food just yet. That's fine, but I'll take a pass until that's fixed.

You could open a well-worded issue for it (“Gitea code base should be hosted on gitea instance”) and track that. There is a chance that the developers will close it as a WONTFIX of course.

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by marenkay »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #7

Entertainingly the code is hosted on github. :-) I'd have more confidence in it if it could self-host and I was able to see gitea inside of a gitea instance and that was the main workflow. Like this, it feels like maintainers aren't prepared to eat their own dog food just yet. That's fine, but I'll take a pass until that's fixed.

See https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 - self hosting as almost there.

Re: Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub

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Post by mariusmg »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #14
badminton1 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Find the 7 differences... - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/commits/master - https://github.com/gogs/gogs/commits/master gogs is mostly maintained by a single developer, and has less activity than gitea.

A frantic commit free for all isn't necessarily better. I count nine different developers committing to the project's master branch in a single day. That has tradeoffs too.

Comparing commits is mostly pointless anyway. Some people commit very often any little change (like some indentation change) while others commit only when a feature is done.

Compare releases and features.

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