I very much have my eye on that. Pretty sure that's going to be my next self-host just because I love everything about it, not so much because I'll need it. Pleeeease federate. I know it's a whole lot of work, but it would be a significant net benefit to all developers worldwide who code because they like it.
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How does it compare to Gitea?
Forgejo is where the dev is happening now.
Can't wait for federation
Thoughts on this versus tangled besides this being more mature? Also question, I have cloudflare serving as my ddns, I believe some settings I have configured there prevent ssh from working to my forgejo instance. Is it a security risk to allow ssh traffic properly? I have other services on the same subdomain published as well if that matters.
Edit: would Tailscale be a solution here?
Recommendation would be that you want to set up your ssh so that it only accepts publickey authentication. You also want to make sure you are not using a proxied DNS value, as CF only proxies http requests.
Personally I didn't bother to setup ssh access as https typically works fine.
I setup ssh key access only on all my machines so that bit is ok. Maybe I’ll forgo ssh like you’re suggesting as well. I thought I had some use for it but it’s been a while since I was messing with my forgejo instance, I’ve kind of fallen back to GitHub and codeberg for a bit since I’ve been busy. I couldn’t get https cloning to work for some reason either so I neee to investigate that I guess.
An amazing project. Good work devs.
Finally, repository specific access tokens were added! I was missing this feature from GitHub (fine-grained access tokens) and had resorted to making service accounts that had access to a single repo. Time to clean that up :)
Forgejo's most promising feature was federation, and unfortunately, they don't seem to be working on that.
They do, it's just a lot of work.
Here's an example PR: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/10380
Oh, didn't know Forgejo was ever intended to have federation. That's so cool!
It's the main reason I choose them. Can't wait to open issues on other instances without creating an account and not everything being on GitHub.
Cool!
Yeah... I'm gonna wait for 15.1...