Where would you host your code if you prefer non-for-profit communities with FLOSS commitment?

Open Source@lemmy.ml – 80 points – 1 years ago

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.

https://codeberg.org/

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.

Not really gitea but forgejo which a softfork of gitea

Codeberg is run by a German non-profit.

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

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.

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 --bare and 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.

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!