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Cross posted from https://programming.dev/post/37923169

Publication about the monopoly of GitHub and the fact developers should move elsewhere if they care about their freeedom and the freedom of FLOSS projects

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[–] poldy@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

Definitely codeberg.org

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Where is a good place to move? Preferably in Europe and non-profit.

[–] jo3rn@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Codeberg looks great and is both European and non-profit.

There is also Forgejo and Radicle that might be worth looking at!

[–] un1970ix@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just a small note: Forgejo is the software, while Codeberg is both the umbrella organization developing Forgejo and a large public instance of it at codeberg.org.

https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Oh thanks, I've learned something thanks to you. I knew there was a link between the two but didn't know what.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[–] iglou@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I have my own gitea server and very happy with it!

[–] erock@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I’ve been slowly working on a set of decoupled services that could replace some aspects of GitHub.

https://pr.pico.sh/ — a pastebin supercharged for git collaboration.

https://pgit.pico.sh/ — static site generator for git repos.

Both are still WIP but I think they are pretty handy

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you’ve never tried GitHub alternatives, you’ll be surprised by how good they are (I definitely was). Many of them match the feature set of GitHub and some even surpass it.

[–] pylapp@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you have some comparison documentation or benchmark to share comparing for example GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut and Codeberg?

I did not succeed in finding something comparing these forges about: -CI/CD

  • runners
  • issues
  • project management
  • wiki
  • releases management
  • third-party tools

I am used to GirHub and GitLab but not Codebeg 🤔

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure what you mean with project management and third party tools, but everything else is covered in forgejo (which powers Codeberg).

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Personally, I use OneDev and it definitely has

  • CI/CD
  • runners
  • issues
  • project management
  • releases management (packages)

I'm not sure about wikis or third-party plugins.

[–] wildsir@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just use GitLab.com and mirror relevant repos to GitHub for job and portfolio purposes.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Last time I checked, GitLab wasn't GDPR compliant. CodeBerg is better - and even better is to use many small sites or even self-host stuff.

This will be overcome some day, but the black hole destroying international cooperation that has appeared in the US will keep us busy for some years - and it is important to harden projects as well as communities against it.