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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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Post by mathstuf »

vanviegen wrote: post #21
mathstuf wrote: post #11

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

I'd guess Linux is the most important platform for most customers. Also, it's probably the easiest and least expensive platform to support. I'd be very surprised if they'd picked another platform to support in their initial release of this feature.

The "every job uses a Docker container" is what worries me. Because the other two certainly don't have a robust container mechanism. Sure, Windows has something, but it is a far cry from "pick a distro, install some stuff, and call it a day" because there's some blessed image that supports installing .NET stuff and if you don't base on that, you're SoL (at least last I checked). And that's even ignoring the lack of rendering if you need it or the filesystem performance hit they seemed to be plagued with.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Post by e12e »

strenholme wrote: post #15

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…

> Souceforge also has a proprietary free-to-use for open source Git hosting service

It's not proprietary?

https://sourceforge.net/create/

> And, as if all of that wasn’t enough, the SourceForge platform runs on Apache Allura which itself is Open Source!

https://allura.apache.org/

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Post by mathstuf »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #53
mathstuf wrote: post #11

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

The underlying tech (Woodpecker) supports running tasks on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. It seems like they are still just in the testing phase, maybe they need a customer to run builds on all 3.

I don't see any docs about that. How is the `image` value used on macOS and expected to contain some usable macOS filesystem layout? Are you expected to SSH to a machine running the target platform from a Docker container and run the commands that way?

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Post by brabel »

Shame that they don't seem to support the European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework for registration: https://essif-lab.eu/

I am really hoping that this will take off and soon all Europeans will be able to prove they have the right to get services without having to reveal their full identity... and I think this is a great framework for registration to services like this as well.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Post by RamblingCTO »

drstewart wrote: post #37
alias_neo wrote: post #13

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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…

>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? Maybe that's why he has serious concerns? Funny how it's always valid for Europeans to have concerns about America and its differences, but when it's the other way around it's a barrage of "How dare you?!" (just look at the responses to OPs concerns).

No, it's more that we Europeans scratch our head as to what he wants. The comment reads like a troll post. Why would code be nuked for hate speech?

/e: lel, he has been warned by dang already for other comments: "Would you please stop the unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments?". So we don't need to bother.

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Post by slow_typist »

emilengler wrote: post #35
giobox wrote: post #27

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Can't you just run gitlab or whatever else out of a container in 5 seconds nowadays? Map a single volume and you are likely done. Its not that it's hard to self host that I choose to use third party git services (its clearly not!), it's just that the benefits of self hosting a git repository are increasingly few unless you have strict security requirements etc etc, and the free options are so good now. Running self h…

But why? If you have an SSH server running, you can immediately setup a git server. Just do git init —-bare, no gigantic web server overhead. https://rgz.ee/git.html

Yeah you could even use recent ssh clients if you leave gitea, which is written in go, out of the equation:

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/17798

Re: Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe

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Post by sylware »

Munksgaard wrote: post #60
sylware wrote: post #51

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Wait, most if not all are not noscript/basic (x)html friendly, what codeberg seems to be. Ok, github.com has most of its critical functions (microsoft has managed not to f*ck it up... yet) working with a noscript/basic (x)html browser, gitlab and bitbucket, not even possible to create an account, and if I recall properly, neither for sourcehut. There are other git services which are noscript/basic (x)html friendly fr…

I... don't think that's true of Sourcehut? Drew has certainly argued for the fact that websites should be usable without Javascript, so it would surprise me if Sourcehut didn't follow the same standards.

I should test, but isn't there a javascript only captcha at account creation?

A few years ago, captchas were long to go thru but at least without that horrible javascript.

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