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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by notpushkin »

bdlowery wrote: post #76
notpushkin wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> depending on what you’re developing it may or may not be a good fit for you I think if your project is free / open source (edit: and you don’t use LLMs/AI), Codeberg is the a good starting point at least. You can move on to a self-hosted instance if you feel you’ve outgrown it, but even for larger projects I think you can get away with self-hosting just the CI runners. And don’t forget to donate! https://donate.cod…

if you use ai to program at all you can't use codeberg.

Good point, I forgot they’ve recently banned it. Updated my comment.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by Anon1096 »

axegon_ wrote: post #55

I migrated everything to codeberg several months ago (and created an annual donation schedule). I was never a big fan of github but what ultimately pushed me to ditch it was the way github was shoving copilot/chatgpt in my face without me ever asking. Codeberg has a clear stance on that and it's a stance I can totally get behind. In addition I spun up forgejo at a server at home for very critical stuff and it's aweso…

Note: if your reason for switching is purely uptime, you will be sorely disappointed with codeberg

Their own site reports the 2 week uptime at 1 nine https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg and I suspect if you use the (really terrible) across-all-product-offerings uptime methodology that people love to post for github it would be a 0 nines overall service.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by inanothertime »

plqbfbv wrote: post #37

To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: we did it for 6+ years in my company, and it's not always a smooth sailing. We had our own runners and we made it auto-upgrade across docker images daily before business start. It mostly worked really well, except those few times were a Docker upgrade had to be rolled back, or that one time the bundled pg_shared_buffers was set at 1MB by default, making schema upgrades im…

Setting up custom GitLab runners can be cumbersome in the beginning! We faced that multiple times with various customer projects for which we were using GitLab.com managed repos. That's why my colleague and I recently built a "GitLab Runners as a Service" [0] -- simply use your self-managed GitLab or GitLab.com account to login, adding pipeline runners is a 1-click operation! Under the hood we provision a Hetzner machine for you runners and automatically connect your GitLab group or project to it. Happy to hear your feedback!

[0] https://rocketrunner.io/

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by dreamcompiler »

Arrowmaster wrote: post #46
bobkb wrote: post #27

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Is their CI and CD workflow robust like gitlab/github ?

You can use any CI/CD you want. The only reason GH is popular is that it's free for public repos. But Forgejo does have a GH like CI/CD. If you really care about good CI/CD then you should try some of the alternatives out and decide what works best for your needs.

> The only reason GH is popular is that it's free for public repos.

It's also free for private repos, and I have both. Codeberg doesn't like private repos, so unfortunately I cannot just move everything to Codeberg. I'll probably set up a Forgejo VPS somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by herpdyderp »

vehemenz wrote: post #26

My org's GitHub Enterprise never goes down. The feature set is almost the same, though it lags a few months behind. At least you don't have to learn anything new.

I'm assuming you mean Enterprise Server (non-cloud), because my GitHub Enterprise Cloud is down right now.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by Pxtl »

dboreham wrote: post #70
Pxtl wrote: post #45

A big thing with Github its the unified functionality across most of the OSS world - that we can search across all projects, leverage pipeline actions from other projects, and easily have a single dashboard for our own contributions and interests across all projects. I'd hate to see a move to forge balkanization lose this functionality. But this would not be heavyweight data to federate. So are there any forges with…

There was some work to address this issue with federation in Gitea, but I haven't kept up with how well that went. Our practical solution was to just mirror our Gitea repos into GitHub. That way they're discoverable, releases can be downloaded, and so on. Not a perfect solution because users get confused as to why they can't open issues, etc.

That would be good for following, but I'd worry about contributions. Single-sign-on would help but if you're going to ask the user to create a new username+password to log a bug you're not going to get bugs from anybody except your most hardcore users.

Also, unified dashboards/notifications are so useful (even though Github's notification UI is a bit mediocre, imho).

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by techknowlogick »

ukd1 wrote: post #43

I've used gitlab and gitea; gitea is faster, and easier to manage and does everything I actually need though, is less feature complete.

I'm one of the project leads of Gitea. I'd be interested in knowing which features you are missing from Gitea compared to Gitlab? We are doing some backlog grooming right now, and input is very appreciated:)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by dreamcompiler »

rambojohnson wrote: post #78

how has nobody mentioned https://codeberg.org ? it gives you the obvious gitHub alternative: open-source, community-owned, privacy-respecting, non-corporate, and not built around turning your development workflow into a Microsoft-owned platform.

All of that is good except if you also have a lot of private repos at GH, you cannot move them to Codeberg.
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