Where would you host your code if you prefer non-for-profit communities with FLOSS commitment? (feddit.de)

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My first idea was to use the Gitea instance of the Free Software Foundation Europe, but T&Cs strongly encourage only projects with direct relation to the FSFE activities, so personal projects don't seem welcome.

The first-party Gitea platform seems to be in risk of becoming for-profit.

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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 60 points 10 months ago

https://codeberg.org/

FLOSS dedicated Git hosting in Germany, it's a Gitea instance AFAIK.

[-] moritz@lemmy.deltaa.xyz 31 points 10 months ago

It's running Forgejo.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago

Okay, that sounds like it hits the spot. I'll read up on them. Happy to hear testimonials for existing users.

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

CI/CD is work-in-progress. Aside from that, it's working perfectly for me.

[-] Ineocla@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Not really gitea but forgejo which a softfork of gitea

[-] deadlyremote@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

Codeberg is run by a German non-profit.

[-] laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de 20 points 10 months ago

I've seen many people use Codeberg recently.

If you are willing to self-host and are scared of the gitea license shake-up, use forgejo.

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Any suggestions for where I can read up on the licensing troubles?

[-] laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de 2 points 10 months ago

If you are willing to visit reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gitea/comments/yj6ndx/gitea_controversy_timeline/

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

If you are willing to self-host and are scared of the gitea license shake-up, use forgejo.

When it comes to self-hosting, there's also the costs. Hosting providers have been hitting me with price hikes one after another this year, so I'm looking into shutting down some servers instead.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

I host it on a raspberry pi with 2 GB RAM for myself. The only challenge with it is because I do hundreds of repo mirrors, basically a local archive of public repos on other code forges that I found useful to have

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I pay $12 per year for my vps...

[-] On@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

which company and specs?

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Https://Hostvds.com ... There are a bunch of others similarly priced ones though.... I think it has 1gb ram, 10gb hdd, IP address, etc... Its enough to run a wordpress woocommerce store

[-] Jummit@lemmy.one 19 points 10 months ago

I can recommend Sourcehut, it's still free right now: sourcehut.org You will need to learn how to use Git with email, but that isn't a bad skill to have anyway, so why not.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

I can give it a shot, certainly. One of the main contributors behind it is in my RSS reader so there's some name recognition there. Future pricing is not final though, so I can't budget for it before committing.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

I second Sourcehut. I liked it so much, I started paying for it a couple of years ago.

The CI works really well, and the parts are slowly (but continuously) becoming more integrated and cohesive.

The features I like best may, however, be anti-features to others. The web interfaces are spartan (and correspondingly lightweight). Many interactions require more esoteric workflows - such as the aforementioned "PRs via email." You could self-host the entire suite, if you wanted, and there's almost no possibility for vendor lock-in... I guess there's no real downside to that one. And Drew is a Character, which is fun if you agree with him on many things, which I do, but could be annoying if you don't.

I am a happy subscriber, FWIW.

[-] fafff@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

It might not be a solution for everyone, but you can self host a git repository on your static site!

stagit is a static git site generator. It is lean, you can self host it even of the cheapest of shared hosting and it makes code browseable via html, which is a plus for sharing and receiving suggestions/contributions.

For a relatively small, low bandwith project it is a charm. As an example, here are my repositories.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago

It might not be a solution for everyone, but you can self host a git repository on your static site!

I like the concept and the aesthetics, but I guess you still need to run a git server?

[-] fafff@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Nope! Little known to people, you just need to locally clone your repository with --bare and upload that. You will see you can clone it even if you don't have a git server!

It is a very slick, minimalist solution.

[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

TIL, thanks. This might be a viable path for me.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Selfhosting Forgejo is a good solution, especially since federation via ActivityPub will be available soonish.

Codeberg is nice (and will join the federation), but they are getting a bit too big and are having some scaling problems.

I am also working on a Forgejo code hosting site over at https://f-hub.org but it isn't really open for public yet (I am willing to on-board people interested in contributing to running the site though). The idea is to launch it together with the availability of the Forgejo federation.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Wow, I though the federation project has been abandoned or crawled to a halt, but that's good to hear!

[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

especially since federation via ActivityPub will be available soonish.

Sounds pretty intresting, link to a discussion?

[-] Kovu@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

codeberg

[-] twelve12@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

What is FLOSS?

[-] schmensch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago

free libre open source software.

Basically software by the people for the people controlled and kept in check by the people.

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I believe it's just going from free and open source software to free, libre and open source software

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 3 points 10 months ago

What's wrong with gitlab?

[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

It's operated by a publicly traded company. That seems be an extreme case of "for-profit" that OP is trying to avoid.

[-] thecam@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It has an awful UI layout.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

It's pretty hard to log in nowadays in some cases. Like, with my hardened firefox profile I can never get through the cloudflare automatic bot check (not even a captcha, just a reloading page that fingerprints) even if I allow the usual things.

But the Librewolf team probably has a list of reasons publicly available, as they have just moved from gitlab to codeberg for reasons like this. Simply put, gitlab is becoming user hostile.

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 10 months ago

So far I didn't have any issues logging in even on firefox with all the usual plugins and privacy settings enabled. I think saying that it's user hostile is a big exaggeration. I see how it's not 'non-profit' but I think it's still a great place for open source projects. I self host it and use the official page and it has been a very useful, good quality tool.

[-] library_napper@monyet.cc 3 points 10 months ago

Try to publish code anonymously on gitlab with Tor. They won't even let you login.

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 10 months ago

Why why I do it? I have some open source code there and I link to my repos from LinkedIn. My code is not secret. If it were I would self host my repos. I'm not saying gitlab is great for everything bitits is good for many things.

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

No protection from fire though. Just because you aren't fussed about privacy, doesn't mean others aren't. Some folk like nudist beaches, others do not.