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[โ€“] 47 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Time for a European GitHub?

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  • [โ€“] 101 points 7 months ago (13 children)
  • [โ€“] 21 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Codeberg is only an alternative for FOSS software.

    Most of my GitHub stuff for example is private client projects that I cannot simply publish. They donโ€™t provide much value to others and might contain proprietary code. The same goes for private half finished side projects that Iโ€˜m sure most people have on their accounts. Codeberg is simply not the right place for this.

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  • [โ€“] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    You're right, but neither is Github. You don't want your proprietary code on some corporate platform. A self-hosted git server is the way to go for that.

    The strength of platforms like Codeberg and Github lies in having a large userbase who can access your project to post issues, contribute code etc. No point in using them for things like private repos.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Self-hosting a Git Forge is very feasible. Closest hosted alternative platform is GitLab but I don't think it's still EU since it was listed on NASDAQ. Being a remote company, they don't list a headquarters. I don't know where their servers are based.

    https://gitlab.com/

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah itโ€™s not hosted in the EU. From their privacy policy:

    Sharing Personal Data Across National Borders. Our Services are hosted in the United States and information we collect will be stored and processed on our servers in the United States.

    There are some smaller providers that also offer Git via Forgejo or Gitea like Disroot. That might be fit for private use, but I havenโ€™t personally tried it. Codeberg is great for more public facing FOSS projects but given their size Iโ€™d throw them a donation if youโ€™re going to depend on it beyond personal scale.

    That said, I just selfhost Forgejo using Coolify on a VPS in my home country. My goal is to migrate at some point to self hosting in my home, eventually.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Forgejo was really easy to set up with docker

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