Which git plateform to choose?
from Gulliver@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 14 Jul 09:36
https://lemmy.zip/post/67880860

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/67880752

Hi, I want to self host a git service to display my work (electronics) for some recruiters. Which platform is the best? I’ve heard about Gitlab, Gitea and Forgejo. For me the fact that the platform doesn’t run some background analytics and does not sell my data is very important.

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Mihies@programming.dev on 14 Jul 09:48 next collapse

I’d say Forgejo as it is the most simple of the three. If you want more complexity (like CI/CD), then one of the other two. You can checkout Forgejo at codeberg.org.

myrmidex@belgae.social on 14 Jul 09:50 next collapse

CI/CD works fine for selfhosted forgejo, I set mine up with minimal hassle.

Mihies@programming.dev on 14 Jul 11:02 next collapse

Sure, but it’s not part of Forgejo, is it?

tedvdb@feddit.nl on 14 Jul 11:23 collapse

Yes it is? Check the docs

Mihies@programming.dev on 14 Jul 12:59 collapse

I guess it depends on how you look at it - “It needs to be installed separately.”

tedvdb@feddit.nl on 14 Jul 13:13 collapse

You left out a part of the sentence;

Note that Forgejo does not run the jobs, it relies on the Forgejo Runner to do so. It needs to be installed separately.

And:

As of Forgejo v1.21, Actions is enabled by default.

So yeah. it depends on how you look at it. For me it means it’s part of Forgejo.

Ghoelian@piefed.social on 14 Jul 16:28 collapse

Github actions also needs a separate runner, github just provides some free ones for you. You can self-host a github actions runner as well.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 14 Jul 16:17 collapse

Is the CI/CD still a faithful clone of github’s worst-in-show setup? Because if I had a plan for ditching GL, the CI keeps forgejo from being a contender.

F04118F@feddit.nl on 14 Jul 09:55 next collapse

Gitea is not fundamentally different than Forgejo, Forgejo is just a better fork of it. Better in terms of: more contributors, more users, dogfooding (Gitea is built on Github 🤦).

But yes, GitLab is like the Mac of Git forges: everything is included, doing everything their own way, vendor lock, very expensive. There is a community edition but serious users will run into its limitations and it does not integrate neatly with external solutions.

Forgejo is IMO the Linux of Git forges: low on resources, expandable, hackable, stable.

mbirth@lemmy.ml on 14 Jul 10:21 next collapse

Eh, there’s not really a better/worse between Gitea and ForgeJo. Gitea is targeting business customers, ForgeJo is targeting the open source community.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 14 Jul 15:35 next collapse

There is a community edition but serious users will run into its limitations

No true Scot, then?

I’m running gitlab implementations at a few sites. I’ve not seen or heard of any performance limiter with a self-managed community edition that removes a tool the others still provide.

and it does not integrate neatly with external solutions.

Again, this sounds FUDdy. Which ‘external solutions’ are you using that a git-push fails on? Some spaghetti of saas tendrils seems to be already a risk, but I can’t think of any other external thing that it could mess up with.

Dirk@lemmy.ml on 14 Jul 18:55 collapse

We should also keep in mind that Gitea was hostilely taken away from the community by a for-profit corporation that made Gitea open-core by hiding a way features behind a paywall in a cloud.

Gulliver@lemmy.zip on 14 Jul 09:55 collapse

Thanks for you reply, I did not know what CI/CD mean so just checked it, it’s not important for me because I want to display only finished project. Forgejo looks great and I just found it’s available as a TrueNas app which is great for me.

Ghoelian@piefed.social on 14 Jul 16:30 collapse

I’ve been running forgejo (and forgejo-runner for workflows) on TrueNAS for a little while now, without any issues really.

The runner image is also available as a TrueNAS app, so if you ever do want CI/CD it’s pretty simple to set up.

talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world on 14 Jul 09:56 next collapse

If it’s for recruiters, put it on github. That’s the one they are most probably familiar with and you want to minimize barriers to access.

Gulliver@lemmy.zip on 14 Jul 09:57 next collapse

That’s a good point 🥲

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 14 Jul 10:11 next collapse

If a corporate recruiter or technical recruiter can’t navigate a git forge that is not GitHub that is their failing not your problem to fix.

HelloRoot@lemy.lol on 14 Jul 10:45 next collapse

yeah but they won’t fix it. They’ll make a note that this candidate is difficult to work with and look for another.

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 14 Jul 11:03 next collapse

Then you know the kind of environment the company fosters and do you want to work for an org that doesn’t have the decency to look at their applicants?

unitedwithme@lemmy.today on 14 Jul 11:15 next collapse

Amen brother idk why you’re down voted!! Good to know it’s a shit company right away.

HelloRoot@lemy.lol on 14 Jul 12:25 collapse

I don’t work for an org, I work for money.

Why should I self-sabotage my options, they might have a shit hiring process and still pay well.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 14 Jul 14:18 collapse

They don’t even have to “look”. Just grab the next resume off the stack.

Ghoelian@piefed.social on 14 Jul 16:27 collapse

I mean that really depends on how badly you want the job.

Redjard@reddthat.com on 14 Jul 10:33 collapse

Also seo, I’ve sadly seen 4 year abandoned random forks rank as the first result and the actual project way below, just because it was on a self-hosted git. iirc that was the freedesktop one, so definitely not small, new, or low volume either.

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 14 Jul 10:54 collapse

Yep… Our official website somehow often ranks below long abandoned forks on github pages?

bizdelnick@lemmy.ml on 14 Jul 10:07 next collapse

If you don’t need issue tracker, wki, CI etc., cgit will be enough. If choose from gitlab, gitea and forgejo, use forgejo.

Dirk@lemmy.ml on 14 Jul 15:45 collapse

cgit always feels last century. Even with so-called “modern CSS” it’s just ancient.

dihutenosa@piefed.social on 14 Jul 10:30 next collapse

I’d use nginx and https://git-scm.com/docs/git-http-backend

justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 14 Jul 11:46 next collapse

i tried all three for my personal use. so i can’t say much about collaboration aspects. anyway:

  • gitlab is old, stable and solid. and it eats half of your servers resources.
  • gitea and forgeji are for me equal in experience, which is makes sense, as one being a fork of the other. i haven’t had any issues with anything, from setting up, using openid as auth method, to ssh passthrough.
  • eventually i settled now on forgejo, simply for ideology reasons. it’s heavily developed, so things might change. but they have this nice attitude to not release a latest tag for docker. so you can’t accidentally update to a breaking change. had this issue with some other programs, which i spun up to quickly.
  • looking forward to federation feature on forgejo!
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus on 14 Jul 12:00 next collapse

So I’m going to suggest something slightly different - put it on both github and codeberg, then note that its synced from your local repo as a mirror and link it in a readme.

Gives you a few things

  • Readily accessible and fast options for the recruiter to access, even if your power is out / motherboard blows up / whatever.
  • Demonstrates your familiarity with a world beyond github
  • Demonstrates you can stand up your own local repo (if this is a thing they care about - if not don’t bother with your own repo for just this)

As for the server itself I’d say forgejo personally.

hexagonwin@lemmy.today on 14 Jul 13:02 next collapse

i just put git repos in a dir on my server and use ssh to push/pull

if you need webui theres cgit.

i can say its not very user friendly tho…

japemasterBrad@programming.dev on 14 Jul 14:35 collapse

Gitea for me, never had an issue with it. Work’s great!