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Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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timwaagh wrote: post #92
commoner wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Services don't need to handle every single use case to be viable alternatives. GitHub does host proprietary software, but it is most well known for being a place to collaborate on free and open source software. Codeberg addresses this primary use case in a more focused way than GitHub intends to, and because of this, Codeberg is an excellent alternative to GitHub.

It's only a great alternative if you believe GitHub deserves to die because it hosts everyone and making proprietary software should be made as difficult as possible. Which is the same as being against people making a living from building and selling software. ie you are against the existence of programming as a profession. In specifically that case this is superior to GitHub.

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Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by djha-skin »

Entinel wrote: post #19

> 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'…

Codeberg runs on Forjego, the soft fork of Gitea. If you don't like the restrictions of Codeberg, running your own copy of it is super easy and relatively cheap. Further, they are working on a fediverse feature allowing PRs between instances. If this happens, your individual instance can PR with Codeberg, but still have private repos. I'm excited about this.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

jwmcq wrote: post #94
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #80

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>It's fortunate that sometimes people refuse to build big tents and instead push for a better world. In general I prefer if people keep their politics out of IT infrastructure. We don't all agree on what makes the world better and what makes it worse. That said, I don't have a problem with this particular project. It's absolutely fine to create a git hosting solution specifically for open source as open source is its…

> I prefer if people keep their politics out of IT infrastructure. I find it interesting that people only ever say this when talking about free software initiatives. Nobody moans about software getting 'political' when talking about closed-source companies enforcing intellectual property laws that were literally written by politicians .

> I prefer if people keep their politics out of IT infrastructure.

>> I find it interesting that people only ever say this when talking about free software initiatives. Nobody moans about software getting 'political' when talking about closed-source companies enforcing intellectual property laws that were literally written by politicians.

I'm sorry, but I find your extremely selective quoting offensive. You are distorting the meaning of my comment, in fact turning it into its exact opposite. You even left out the first two words of the sentence you are quoting just to make your point.

I said "In general I prefer..." followed by two paragraphs justifying why I think that this general principle doesn't apply to open source and to this project in particular.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by RamblingCTO »

kotatsuyaki wrote: post #67

I’m trying to migrate my personal repos from GitHub to Codeberg. The biggest challenge is to find a replacement for GitHub Actions (the free offering is so generous), and my current solution for that is to self-host an instance of Woodpecker CI [1]. I’d like to see even more diversity in Git hosting beyond “let’s all migrate from X to Y”, and for that to happen, Forgejo (the soft fork of Gitea that Codeberg runs) has…

They (Gitea) introduced actions. It is already included in the current releases, but codeberg might just not activate it. It works quite good, I actually wrote a gitea action already ("gitea-release-drafter").

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

jraph wrote: post #87
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>It's fortunate that sometimes people refuse to build big tents and instead push for a better world. In general I prefer if people keep their politics out of IT infrastructure. We don't all agree on what makes the world better and what makes it worse. That said, I don't have a problem with this particular project. It's absolutely fine to create a git hosting solution specifically for open source as open source is its…

> In general I prefer if people keep their politics out of IT infrastructure You need to make choices that will have tradeoffs anyway. Unless you find a consensual choice, which is very rare, you might be picking mainstream ones, which are not neutral. Neutrality does not exist. For instance, for any software you need to choose, it will be either proprietary or open source. Both have political implications.

I agree that some choices cannot be avoided, but others can and should be avoided.

In my opinion, we should avoid linking the use of IT infrastructures to political issues such as systems of government, wars, climate change, gender identity, religion or anything else that is unrelated to the technical aspects of that infrastructure.

Open source licences themselves are a good example of how I think it should be done. They do not impose any unnecessary political restrictions. They only impose specific rules related to source code. I think that's a good idea and we should apply this idea to other IT infrastructures as well.

Re: Codeberg – Fast open source alternative to GitHub

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Post by hakre »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #105
kotatsuyaki wrote: post #67

I’m trying to migrate my personal repos from GitHub to Codeberg. The biggest challenge is to find a replacement for GitHub Actions (the free offering is so generous), and my current solution for that is to self-host an instance of Woodpecker CI [1]. I’d like to see even more diversity in Git hosting beyond “let’s all migrate from X to Y”, and for that to happen, Forgejo (the soft fork of Gitea that Codeberg runs) has…

They (Gitea) introduced actions. It is already included in the current releases, but codeberg might just not activate it. It works quite good, I actually wrote a gitea action already ("gitea-release-drafter").

Nice, perhaps is worth to invest into such kind of "fediverse" (using Codeberg with my own hosted action runners/boxes), I'd buy into that feature much faster than into any other (e.g. using Codeberg for PRs from proprietary hosted "Codeberg" instances).
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