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I’m still not sure what to do with my own code.
I placed my public projects on GitHub to have a visible online front and invite people to submit patches. I haven’t had any issues with GitHub so far. I considered Microsoft to be a good steward… until recently, since articles like this keep popping up.
I also already have a self-hosted repository for my private projects. It would be simple enough for me to move everything there, but then I basically lose any chance of other people contributing and that online resume I built up over time.
Codeberg seems to be the best alternative to Github right now. It’s fully FOSS and supported by a nonprofit and it’s getting more and more popular.
So if you want a good alternative to GitHub but still people to be able to see and contribute to your code, I would suggest Codeberg.
I also use CodeFloe. While smaller, they have fewer guidelines around what is allowed to be there. While Codeberg is generally okay with people putting small private repos there, I don’t feel comfortable using what I view as a public resource for my private stuff.
I hope everyone moves off of their shit and wherever they end up blocks all of the ai bot copilot slop ass.
Any info on scaling forgejo to large size (>1000 users)? My organization has a heavy presence on GitHub.com AND a large GitHub enterprise server as well. Anyone tried at scale?
Until someone can answer your question directly, Codeberg would be the best common example with 50,000 users in 2023.
Woah!
More than a decade ago I joined github among other systems, in order to report bugs to FOSS projects. Now I quit GitHub as it’s too risky being on there. So if a project wants bug reports, go somewhere users data is not put at risk. Or go without bug reports.
GIT is a distributed version control system, there is no reason to centralize it on GitHub, use Forgejo and the Fediverse for your development - today!
Forgejo is easy. Setting up a runner is the problem
codeberg.org (which runs on Forgejo) offers a nice ci solution: Woodpecker.
It’s nice that they have this but the real problem is GitHub Actions is provided for free for all repos. Woodpecker looks like you need to self host. I’m not going to set up and pay for host just for the small amount of time I have working on one of my projects.
You’re right, that it doesn’t just work as conveniently out-of-the-box on Codeberg. However you do not have to self-host: You merely have to apply to get access to their hosted Woodpecker instance at ci.codeberg.org.
See docs here if you want to try it out: https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/
Onboarding requires a few manual steps, as to prevent the abuse of Codeberg’s limited resources. You will need to request access by filling out this form. After submitting, a Codeberg volunteer will review your request and grant you access if your use case is appropriate.
Edit: added quote from docs
I don’t know how Woodpecker works, but I have a lot of experience with Gitlab runners. You can startup a runner locally, as it doesn’t need to be publicly accessible from the internet. Only the Gitlab instance needs to be accessible for the runner, as the runner actively fetches new jobs from there and pushes the results again.
If Woodpecker works similarly, you could just deploy the runner locally while you’re actively developing and your computer is running anyway, if you don’t want to pay for a VPS.
or a public instance like codeberg if you don’t want to (or can’t) self host
Done. Moved.
Microslop ruins everything it touches.
There’s something heartwarming about a massive company completely ballsing something up like this, and losing money in the process.
They really are just like me
