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.
FLOSS dedicated Git hosting in Germany, it’s a Gitea instance AFAIK.
It’s running Forgejo.
Okay, that sounds like it hits the spot. I’ll read up on them. Happy to hear testimonials for existing users.
CI/CD is work-in-progress. Aside from that, it’s working perfectly for me.
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.
Any suggestions for where I can read up on the licensing troubles?
If you are willing to visit reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gitea/comments/yj6ndx/gitea_controversy_timeline/
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.
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
I pay $12 per year for my vps…
which company and specs?
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
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.
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?
Nope! Little known to people, you just need to locally clone your repository with
--bareand 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.
TIL, thanks. This might be a viable path for me.
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.
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.
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.
Codeberg is run by a German non-profit.
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.
Wow, I though the federation project has been abandoned or crawled to a halt, but that’s good to hear!
codeberg
What is FLOSS?
free libre open source software.
Basically software by the people for the people controlled and kept in check by the people.
I believe it’s just going from free and open source software to free, libre and open source software
What’s wrong with gitlab?
It’s operated by a publicly traded company. That seems be an extreme case of “for-profit” that OP is trying to avoid.
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.
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.
It has an awful UI layout.
