Hello, I was thinking of moving all my open source projects here. Anyone have any opinions? Excuse the post if this has been discussed previously, I was unable to find anything directly relating to peoples opinions on using it.
Edit: Lots of great discussion going on here! Thanks to everyone who contributed! I wasn’t sure before but now I am set on moving all my projects over. The fact that it will be federated makes it even more appealing given that github is now requiring phone numbers and other personal information in order to create an account on their site.
If you’re looking for collaboration or audience I’d stay with github. It’s too prevalent to skip for alternative niche with account signup and that elsewhere as a barrier.
If that’s no concern to you it’s viable.
I like it a lot. Much better UI than GitHub and perfectly reliable and not directly feeding all my code into Microsoft’s license violations. I also recently heard that you can’t search through GitHub repos anymore without an account, so that’s another reason for Codeberg to me.
Two things to be aware of:
- They ask you to only put open-source repos on there. Sometimes you might have a repo containing personal configuration, which you should then put up on a different service (or backup locally).
- CI/CD isn’t as readily available. They’ve been working on an integration with Woodpecker CI. Presumably something like Travis CI would also work. But yeah, honestly haven’t tried getting CI/CD going so far…
From their terms of service:
They (private repos) are also allowed for really small & personal stuff like your journal, config files, ideas or notes, but explicitly not as a personal cloud or media storage.
I’d guess that most private git repositories are small enough to fall under this category (unless you track large non-text files in git). This also seems like a very reasonable policy, considering that they’re a non-profit and they want to focus on supporting open source projects.
I’ve been using it heavily for the last 6 months. It’s been great, considering it’s running on a shoestring, volunteers, etc.
Also, this: https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infrastructure.html
I selfhost a forgejo instance, which is the underlying framework for codeberg (and they maintain forgejo).
Federation is in the works, they say.
If i was going to have any projects public, this is where i would do it.
I also selfhost forgejo and im really happy with it. (I moved from GitLab.) Personally I cant wait for federation (which GitLab is also working on). If it were so be implemented, then ppl could actually contribute so projects on selfhosted git servers, which I am really looking forward so.
I’ve also got a self hosted Forgejo instance. I’m patient and really excited by the future prospects of federation.
It’ll be really nice to keep my code and tooling entirely within my home while still being able to share and collaborate with others though those federated exchanges of community & code.
Federation like that sounds perfect, and would definitely help out for the current situation I see where projects are officially on, say, Gitlab but still accept pull requests on GitHub. I’m sure that involves some annoying manual process (although should be less hassle than the code review!)
Forgejo is a git server, forked by Codeberg from Gitea after Gitea got bought up by a for-profit corporation.
Codeberg is a non-profit organization which runs a public instance of the Forgejo git server.
You can make an account on Codeberg.org, save repos there, and contribute to other repos, like on Github. Or you can run your own Forgejo instance to use either privately or open up to public use.
Gitea wasn’t bought, the people running the project held the trademarks and decided to move the trademarks to a new for-profit entity they created in order to provide git related services for some fee structure that isn’t clear to me. Largely it’s CI/CD service that they are looking to sell.
It’s pretty good, open source and they have a nice UI, I’ve never used it for my own projet (I use Gitlab) but I’m following some projects on there and it is always better than github!
