On 3/26/26 1:37 PM, andy pugh wrote:
For what its worth, recently I've been self hosting an instance of
gitea for some private stuff https://about.gitea.com/ Looks like
they will host open source for free. The git workflow is identical
and I did create some workflows too.
I'm not sure they will... And I'm not sure we should! "Free" always
comes with a price-tag, somewhere, somehow, sometime, just like github
now makes very clear.
However, using gitea on a private server is very attractive.
We used to run a self-hosted command-line git server, but transferred
to GitHub because, frankly, it was a lot better from the project
management point of view.
Indeed, the management perspective is a very important issue.
But the "free" services are not free and we are paying with our work
being taken. That is also a very important issue.
[FWIW, I've been running on leased servers (@Hetzner) for the last 11
years or so. They do cost money, but it is worth the price for the
independence you get.]
Being able to see PRs graphically, and having CI check their
mergability is a colossal timesaver. If we were to go self-hosted we
would need to recreate a lot of stuff, including getting the buildbots
into shape.
That is where gitea comes into play. That is the graphical front-end and
back-end infrastructure very "github" like. It has CI hooks and you can
configure it like you want/need to. Very interesting to run on your own
server(s).
Yes, it is work. And you also need to do backup and such. You must have
organized access and responsibilities, We'd want a non-profit umbrella
to hold the keys.
--
Greetings Bertho
(disclaimers are disclaimed)
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