Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by oblio » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:29 AM UTC

Kwpolska wrote: post #9

What makes it fast, and is GitHub not fast enough? Why is their UI (which is Forgejo, fork of Gitea) such a blatant clone of GitHub’s?

I'm guessing the Golang implementation and probably a smaller team working on the frontend?

GitHub is perceptibly slower than Codeberg, just open 2 tab side by side and try them out.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by agumonkey » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:30 AM UTC

quaintdev wrote: post #6

I am using legit(0). Its simple and straightforward. https://github.com/icyphox/legit

Now I wonder if there are graph view libs for self hosted git servers. Could be a great side project otherwise.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by forgotmypw17 » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:40 AM UTC

About 6 months ago, Codeberg removed the repository for the Wikiless project, and IIRC did not offer any explanation to the developer for about 2 weeks.

The reason was a Wikimedia Foundation request.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101301

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by RobotToaster » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:43 AM UTC

patcon wrote: post #4

pipo234 wrote: post #2

Nice! Hope this one fares better than GitLab. At least they seem to have thought about governance from the start.

What's the "governance" failure? Though I don't use it, GitLab struck me as one of the darlings of how to run an open source company (I love all their public docs), but maybe I'm missing something?

Gitlab is "open-core", not open source.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by pbronez » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:47 AM UTC

grey_earthling wrote: post #7

cabirum wrote: post #3

Codeberg is basically a public Gitea instance, so it's not a completely new product.

They also co-ordinate development of Forgejo, a soft fork of Gitea (and Codeberg now runs Forgejo rather than Gitea).

Forgejo is pretty neat. They’re developing https://forgefed.org/ , which is an ActivityPub extension for software forges. If it works, it’ll extend the decentralized nature of git to issues, pull requests, etc.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by Rexogamer » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:47 AM UTC

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #13

About 6 months ago, Codeberg removed the repository for the Wikiless project, and IIRC did not offer any explanation to the developer for about 2 weeks. The reason was a Wikimedia Foundation request. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101301

I would be very surprised if this was the case - the WMF doesn't prohibit alternative front ends in any way, and it doesn't seem to do anything they'd be upset about (unless it allowed people to evade edit blocks, but that seems incredibly doubtful); if anything, surely they'd welcome a project focused on protecting the privacy of its users?

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by Lyngbakr » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:51 AM UTC

patcon wrote: post #4

pipo234 wrote: post #2

Nice! Hope this one fares better than GitLab. At least they seem to have thought about governance from the start.

What's the "governance" failure? Though I don't use it, GitLab struck me as one of the darlings of how to run an open source company (I love all their public docs), but maybe I'm missing something?

Perhaps they're not referring to a governance failure as such, but rather contrasting a not-for-profit, community-led organisation with a publically-traded, for-profit business?

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by rizky05 » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:52 AM UTC

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #13

About 6 months ago, Codeberg removed the repository for the Wikiless project, and IIRC did not offer any explanation to the developer for about 2 weeks. The reason was a Wikimedia Foundation request. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101301

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Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by Entinel » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:55 AM UTC

> Our mission is to support the creation and development of Free Software; therefore we only allow repos licensed under an OSI/FSF-approved license. For more details see Licensing article. However, we sometimes tolerate repositories that aren't perfectly licensed and focus on spreading awareness on the topic of improper FLOSS licensing and its issues.

If you aren't doing FOSS software and aren't "tolerated" you aren't allowed here. This is not an alternative to Github.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by dboreham » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:02 PM UTC

Kwpolska wrote: post #9

What makes it fast, and is GitHub not fast enough? Why is their UI (which is Forgejo, fork of Gitea) such a blatant clone of GitHub’s?

> such a blatant clone of GitHub’s?

I'm guessing for the same reason all cars have the steering wheel and turn signal switch in roughly the same place.