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cross-posted from: https://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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[โ€“] F04118F@feddit.nl 17 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

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 ๐Ÿคฆ).

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.

[โ€“] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

FUD

Gitea is still MIT licensed and the Enterprise tier features only cater to large org needs [1]. Why would I want to deal with nightmarish SAML config when OIDC does a better job

Forgejo was forked because the maintainers were butthurt they didn't have more say in the development roadmap and their large PRs didn't get reviewed and merged fast enough. Which is a valid reason to fork

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] mbirth@lemmy.ml -3 points 17 hours ago

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