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[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

do lemmy devs have plans to move their repo away from github?

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I haven’t seen any issues that suggest Codeberg migration for the Lemmy and Jerboa repos.

[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Gitlab is FOSS, as long as their code stays that way, and trustworthy, and you avoid their 3rd party US-based servers by self-hosting you should be fine.

Avoiding anything and everything that even exists in countries like the US and China or Russia even if completely transparent & FOSS or non-profiting is kind of crazy imo

In general you should aim to self-host & use FOSS as much as possible, regardless of where it's developed. This gives me similar vibes to when Linus Torvalds banned Russian people or people with Russian names or email addresses from Kernel development.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago

No. Self host and use Forgejo

Codeberg is great for your open projects, but not for everything.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I agree. And Forgejo (the software that powers Codeberg) is getting federation with the ActivityPub protocol (which made the Fediverse possible) in the future.

https://forgefed.org/

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How do we pronounce Forgejo? The english J, the German J, or the Spanish J? (Or is there a 4th option?)

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I don't get people ignoring answers to their own questions. But no worries

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's apparently their most asked question, it has top billing in their FAQ.

https://forgejo.org/faq/#where-does-the-name-come-from

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

it has top billing in their FAQ

I find that genuinely hilarious and delightful 😂

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's based on Esperanto, I think German j would be the closest? Audio sample in their FAQ is like for-jay-yo to my ear, they give /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ as a pronunciation

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

I think German j would be the closest

Yeah, German J is /j/.

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is the other common one yes, like in French for example. Think of the pronunciation of the g in bourgeoisie as an example

[–] callcc@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Very nice to hear!

[–] lazycog@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This has been posted many times (which is ok! Always a good idea to spread awareness!) so I will repeat a thing everyone should know just in case it's not known:

I love codeberg, but note that codeberg specifically states they don't tolerate non-FOSS repos.

You can have a private repo with the goal of opening it, but proprietary code is not welcome.

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 of the topic of improper FLOSS licensing and its issues.

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#can-i-host-software-and-resources-without-a-free-and-open-source-software-license

Edit: wording

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I know this is buy European, but for people who are more interested in buy non-American and less specifically only European, Bitbucket is owned by Australian company Atlassian, and free accounts get unlimited private repos, and relatively reasonable pricing for small teams.

It's a bit less geared towards open source than GitHub or gitlab, but that is available too. I'm not sure how it works.

[–] lung@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whoops Atlassian has 4 offices in the US including SF and NY

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago

Everybody has offices in the US, by that standard you will not buy anything anymore.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah! Fuck small businesses, conglomerates only!

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

I wish it remained a Ukrainian unicorn company

[–] mamaboj@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago

There’s also https://codeberg.org/ which is powered by Forgejo and hosted in Europe

[–] marv99@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Have created my Codeberg account two days ago and moved my very slim repo over from GitHub. o7

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

????

Gitlab sucks anyway. From 2018 to now, the install process somehow got harder and the system requirements got more greedy.

Forgejo FTW.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What's a good self hosted lightweight git instance? Can you use git with forgejo?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Yes it’s a fork of gitea

[–] craig9@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I have removed my gitlab and github accounts. If I need something in future, I'll use Codeberg.

[–] androidul@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

so is GitHub

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

CE license. OnPrem.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linus Torvalds is Finnish but he lives in the US. Does that mean we can’t use Linux or Git?

[–] schubidubiduba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As long as its free and open source its fine in my opinion

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not just open, but also always reproducible built. So you can know the source is for the actual binary.

[–] XM34@feddit.org -5 points 2 days ago

I absolutly agree. But it's also an unfortunate truth that apart from Github and Gitlab all Git-Hosters suck.