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Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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> However, you won’t be getting the advanced features like automation or other integration and collaboration features provided by GitHub. Codeberg is working on CI and you can request early access. I've found it to work well and fast. https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-CI

Is it just me or does this seem to only support Linux and leave all other platforms out to dry?

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

#12

i would have serious concerns about hosting in europe due to hate speech laws that are muddy and ripe for abuse. the site doesn't have a hate speech policy i can find, is anyone here informed on exactly what the ramifications of such laws might be?

Do you have any example of this?

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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i would have serious concerns about hosting in europe due to hate speech laws that are muddy and ripe for abuse. the site doesn't have a hate speech policy i can find, is anyone here informed on exactly what the ramifications of such laws might be?

I'm not clear (as a European) which part of your code-hosting could be risky in this regard?

There's many privacy and other laws that affect myself and my neighbours in Europe that concern me, but hate speech has never been one of them.

Perhaps wherever you're from you draw lines differently to how we do it in Europe, with regards to what is socially and morally acceptable to say?

I should add that we also don't have a right to "free speech" in the UK as, say, Americans do, and yet it hasn't forced us to keep our mouths shut.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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> However, you won’t be getting the advanced features like automation or other integration and collaboration features provided by GitHub. Codeberg is working on CI and you can request early access. I've found it to work well and fast. https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-CI

Nice to Woodpecker CI getting some traction. Great software for selfhosted ci. Simpler to start than Jenkins, not as flexible ofc, but most projects do not require that amount of flexibility and footguns. Woodpecker one of the best tools for small/medium self-hosted CI's out there atm.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Here is a list of free Git hosting services for open source software:

https://github.com/

https://gitlab.com/

https://bitbucket.org/

https://codeberg.org/ (As per the linked article)

https://sr.ht/ (Sourcehut)

Codeberg and Sourcehut appear to use open source code for their web page backend; the others seem to use proprietary software (in the case of GitLab, there is a free version, but gitlab.com also uses non-free software).

Sourcehut says they may some day charge people to host open source software on their server, but right now it’s a free beer service (but, yes, I have donated) using Free (libre) software.

Souceforge also has a proprietary free-to-use for open source Git hosting service, but their service is a little buggy so I would use one (or in my case, all) of the five I have listed.

If there are any others, please let us know.

In terms of continuous integration, in my particular use case, the automated CI tests take about an hour to all run, so I have a Raspberry Pi server the size of a deck of cards which runs Ubuntu 22.04. The server uses a crontab which checks to see if the Git repo has been updated once a day, and runs the tests inside a Docker container if the repo has changed. Some problems, such as automated testing, don’t need to be solved by putting everything in a cloud.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Here is a list of free Git hosting services for open source software: • https://github.com/ • https://gitlab.com/ • https://bitbucket.org/ • https://codeberg.org/ (As per the linked article) • https://sr.ht/ (Sourcehut) Codeberg and Sourcehut appear to use open source code for their web page backend; the others seem to use proprietary software (in the case of GitLab, there is a free version, but gitlab.com also uses…

Gitee (gitee.com) is also a free hosting service that can be used for OSS, afaik.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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post #5

> However, you won’t be getting the advanced features like automation or other integration and collaboration features provided by GitHub. Codeberg is working on CI and you can request early access. I've found it to work well and fast. https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-CI

Is it just me or does this seem to only support Linux and leave all other platforms out to dry?

here in the USA, Apple and Microsoft repeatedly lock out Linux|*nix from interoperability, marketing, transparency and more .. Linux Foundation appears to be a marketing club for Fortune 500.. where is this perspective ? You developers must include proprietary duopoly in any "open" effort but wait at the back door until I return and tell you what I want to ?

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Here is a list of free Git hosting services for open source software: • https://github.com/ • https://gitlab.com/ • https://bitbucket.org/ • https://codeberg.org/ (As per the linked article) • https://sr.ht/ (Sourcehut) Codeberg and Sourcehut appear to use open source code for their web page backend; the others seem to use proprietary software (in the case of GitLab, there is a free version, but gitlab.com also uses…

> gitlab

Pretty sure GitLab is open source.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Here is a list of free Git hosting services for open source software: • https://github.com/ • https://gitlab.com/ • https://bitbucket.org/ • https://codeberg.org/ (As per the linked article) • https://sr.ht/ (Sourcehut) Codeberg and Sourcehut appear to use open source code for their web page backend; the others seem to use proprietary software (in the case of GitLab, there is a free version, but gitlab.com also uses…

Codeberg source https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/gitea

Codeberg is a fork of Gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea which curiously uses GitHub for hosting.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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post #18

Here is a list of free Git hosting services for open source software: • https://github.com/ • https://gitlab.com/ • https://bitbucket.org/ • https://codeberg.org/ (As per the linked article) • https://sr.ht/ (Sourcehut) Codeberg and Sourcehut appear to use open source code for their web page backend; the others seem to use proprietary software (in the case of GitLab, there is a free version, but gitlab.com also uses…

> gitlab Pretty sure GitLab is open source.

GitLab is a nuanced situation.

There is a FOSS GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss

The hosted gitlab.com instance uses EE features so parent is correct to say that the gitlab.com site is not open source.

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