GitLab vs Codeberg : opensource

[-] it_a_me@literature.cafe 74 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Codeberg is fully open source(forgejo) while gitlab has an open source core+community edition but a source available propietary enterprize edition.
Codeberg is a nonprofit with no ulterior motives. Gitlab is a publicly traded for profit entity with a goal to make profit
This could just be me, but codeberg feels a lot more transparent. When they have outages, they explain why.
Super minor, but the codeberg team "self-hosts" their own servers so you only need to trust the one entity rather than additionally trusting the server provider.

[-] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

self-hosting is great but that still means datacenter someplace. I've been using GitLab for some time now and CodeBerg "feels weird" to me. But then it could be my biases and "muscle memory". I'd say whatever feels right for you.

Unlike other big name Git hosting company who chose to use AI to "steal" from hosted projects other two did not stoop that low. So there's that.

[-] Helix@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago

that still means datacenter someplace

no, you can also self host on your personal computer and simply mirror everything that you're throwing on Codeberg.

[-] Helix@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

Codeberg is a nonprofit with no ulterior motives.

Well, their ulterior motive is to provide a service to the public.

[-] teri@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 7 months ago

gitlab.com is a for profit service/company. They have an open-source community edition of Gitlab which you can run on your own server. Codeberg is a non-profit association running the open-source software "forgejo" for you. At Codeberg you can become a member and then you can vote for important decisions and make proposals. People also care about ethics there. Nobody cares about profit. Codeberg runs on donations from members. I think some people feel more respected at Codeberg because the governing body of Codeberg is a subset of its users. If Gitlab cares about you, then probably because a bad user experience would be bad for business.

[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Something not mentioned yet: Forgejo, the software running Codeberg, has a smaller feature set and narrower scope than GitLab ("GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform" from their website).

Forgejo is much easier to administrate for smaller groups. For example compare the dependencies mentioned in the Forgejo installation documentation and the Gitlab installation documentation.

[-] second@feddit.uk 16 points 7 months ago

That's a bit of an unfair comparison - that's the GitLab instructions to install from source. Most people use a package (rpm, deb) to install GitLab.

The installation instructions for GitLab from prebuilt binaries is https://about.gitlab.com/install/, and that's significantly shorter.

That said, I think for most home applications, GitLab is hugely overkill.

[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes that's true. I guess what I wanted to point out is that GitLab has dependencies like Postgres, Redis, Ruby (with Rails), Vue.js... whereas Forgejo can use just SQLite and jQuery.

[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago

sqlite is not something one would use for a database with a lot of users, postresql or mysql/mariadb is a better choice in these circumstances. and i don't think having jquery as a dependency in 2023 is a positive sign. not sayibg the software is bad, it's just different.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

Fortunately they were inaccurate, and it supports mariadb and postgre too.
In the documentation, they leave sqlite and mssql to the last places in the listings.

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Forgejo uses SQlite

That's a red flag

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hopefully not, as sqllite is never in a prominent place among the other supported databases in the documentation

[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Right. Paid Gitlabs features tend to be targeted as an all in one DevOps platform for larger scale organizations. So how do you do support tickets, CI/CD, feature tracking and coordination for a portfolio of products, documentation, revision control, code reviews, security reviews, etc? In Gitlabs world the answer is Gitlab, with integrations with other enterprise software. It's HUGE. That said I've never heard of an organization (probably due to ignorance not lack of existence) actually doing all of that.

I personally I'm kind of leaning towards building a proof of concept of forgejo, tekton, and maybe Odoo to see if it can cover what my org is actually doing, but he'll we pay for tons of stuff but the amount of excell sheets floating around doing this is wild...

[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Ah come on, we all know as software people we can never stop the spreadsheets from being the real data interchange format ;)

[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Hey, at least remote works been really putting nails in the coffin of printed documents floating around.

But seriously keeping to a good set of tools, providing them at scale and some training will hopefully make the fall back to spreadsheets less attractive to at least the middle wave of adopters.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 7 months ago

GitLab is not completely open source. It is owned by a for profit corporation.

Codeberg runs on Forjego which is open source. It is run by a non-profit.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Not just for profit, but publicly-traded in the US where shareholders will get to make decisions & there are legal obligations to make profit for those shaleholders

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Just curious, what part isn't open source? I'm running a dockerized instance of it on my local server and have made my own modifications to the rails code in several places to meet my needs closer. Haven't seen anything that would indicate it wasn't open source, so just wondering where I should be looking. Unless these comments are related to the .com website and not personal instances

[-] TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

I have found that it was mainly issue and support tracking features that was "missing" from the free community edition of Gitlab.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Ahh okay, so not necessarily the entire software was a whole, but just a few things that would probably be targeted more towards the Enterprise folks? Assuming you don't mean the issue boards for codebases, but rather the support requests. Probably why I hadn't noticed, thanks!

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[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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[-] worldofgeese@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

If you're looking for the GitLab version of Codeberg's hosted Forgejo Git forge, there's Framagit hosted by Framasoft.

[-] moreeni@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

"Codeburg"

[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago

McCodeBurger

[+] SNFi@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] chebra@mstdn.io 7 points 7 months ago

@SNFi Woodpecker passed 1.0 recently and it's much better. Try it again.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

Afaik they use their own CI now, which aims to be compatible with the github ci

[-] neshura@bookwormstory.social 1 points 7 months ago

afaik the aim isn't to be compatible, they just found Github Actions to be the most comfortable to use and as such based their own system around it with the liberty of breaking changes should they think it neccessary

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

You're probably right, I hope though that they'll try to maintain compatibility at least so that even if the Gitea Actions format changes, it would still accept and be able to use the Github Actions files

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