Setting up Forgejo is not complicated, but of course this varies per person.
The 3D view is a nice gimmick, having a stable and secure VCS is more important to me.
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Is gitea not stable?
No experience with Gitea, expect it to be as stable as can be.
But... Forgejo is a fork, got some nice improvements and is and will be opensource. Gitea is 'for profit '
But how can community fork possibly be on par with funded developers?
I use Forgejo with LFS for my Blender projects, so this would probably be useful to me if a similar feature were added there.
As an aside, it seems Blender uses Gitea and not sure they have plans to migrate to Forgejo anytime soon since it looks like they’ve poured a lot of resources into Gitea and even formed a partnership with the maintainers:
https://code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea-diaries-part-1/
I don't know a ton about Gitea, but I've recently starting looking for a simple git server + decent web UI
Gitea and Forgejo are the main recommended ones, but they both seem overly complex. (3D File previews?? Who needs that?)
3D File previews?? Who needs that?
someone's not familiar with the 3d-printer-building scene
I can recommend Forgejo, it's not overly complex in my opinion. It is what I would call "simple git server + decent web UI" for a home lab or VPN.
The reason Forgejo was forked was because of Gitea's focus IIRC, maybe it was stuff like having 3D file previews. It's not even the worst feature though, I can imagine it's quite helpful in projects with a focus on 3D data.
Edit: Just had a look at the reasoning behind forking from Gitea:
We started Forgejo in reaction to control of Gitea being taken away from the community by the newly-formed for-profit company Gitea Ltd without prior community consultation, and after an Open Letter to the Gitea project owners remained unanswered. The Forgejo project has two major objectives that drive our development and road map:
- The community is in control, and ensures we develop to address community needs.
- We will help liberate software development from the shackles of proprietary tools.
https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/
Later they announced the hard fork, because
Simply put, the governance and development models of Gitea and Forgejo diverged over time, and so did their goals. Becoming a hard fork is the culmination of that divergence.
Forgejo also has significantly more active development. Feature-wise, I believe they're currently working on adding federation via ActivityPub as one of the main goals. I also think they have a much better designed and documented system for workers and actions at least at the time I went to spin one up. I switched to Forgejo and haven't really looked back.
I'm still getting familiar with the concept of federation. What would Forejo be able to do with federation if it's not primarily a communication platform?
The federation is mainly about issues / bug reports (the discussions and comments) and being able to make cross instance pull-requests and so on. So yes, it is mostly about communication.
Oh, that's pretty cool!
I use Forgejo at work. We have set it up on a server and it quickly became our main VCS server. Forgejo just sounds complex, once you install it(really simple setup), it is just... Git. You create your repos, you push your commits, and do all the normal git stuff with it.
You can even enable Forgejo Actions and have built-in Github Actions like CI for your repos, and it works surprisingly well.
ForgeJo has been a joy to use over the past few months for me. No regrets.
Why overly complex? What do you mean?
Gitea is alright. It's a very well working git server.
Someone probably wanted the 3d preview and maybe it wasn't difficult. You could say integrating "gitea pages" would be a high priority but that doesn't mean that there can be side quests along the way. You can probably read the PR if you want to know why it's included
It seems designed for like teams of people. They both have like admin interfaces, which I can't ever imagine for my use case.
I'm sure I could get it running, I just dislike using tools that are significantly more complex than I need.
you could try something like cgit, that is the simplest you can get with git frontends I think
Interesting, though this seems to only be a UI, not a server
You don’t need a specific server for bare-bones git server. Just an ssh server is sufficient
I do want it at least clonable over https
Sourcehut is really the only step between just using an ssh server and something like forgejo that I know of.
Anyone using a Version Control system to do 3d design work, if I was smart I would be using this for the stuff I design to 3d print. But I'm not so I just have directories full of STL and 3MF files with occasionally somewhat descriptive names. Oh or 3d artists working on games, videos etc. People who are doing architectural design? Just people with other random interests? I suck at staying organised but I gave Forgejo a go and as long as you follow the getting started guide and keep it on an internal network its pretty straightforward to get started, complexity goes up if you are wanting to use it externally or in more co.plicated scenarios I believe.
To echo my other answer, I'm sure I could get it running, I just dislike using tools that are significantly more complex than I need.
I use Gitea and all it manages are my docker configs and backup scripts. Simple to install via docker and then its just git. Haven't had to do anything fancy.
Maybe you are interested in radicle
Radicle doesn't support windows
me neither
I was disappointed gitea changed their default theme from green to blue.
And they actually removed the green theme altogether so it was a forced change.
My work self hosts Gitea because Forgejo doesn't support Windows. While I agree with Forgejo's decision, it sucks to be basically stuck with an old pre-fork version of the forge I self-host.
You mean as a server os?
Yeah, we use Windows servers primarily. Thankfully what I do doesn't require much interaction with them, though every once in a while I am subjected to SMB file sharing.
My sincere condolences
Thank you.