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Comment by brightball

1 day ago

I’m glad Gitlab is still an option, just sitting there waiting to absorb the market pivot if Microsoft takes it the wrong way.

I see more people jump for Codeberg these days.

  • Or even better, claim full sovereignty (again) and install Forgejo (https://forgejo.org/) on your own hardware.

    You'll get the same experience as Codeberg, because Codeberg is in fact running on Forgejo

    • I have PRs open on five different OSS projects at the moment. My throughput is being limited by trying to remember all the details of PRs I filed 3-6 weeks ago.

      I thinK I have to admit to myself that as little as I like github having all the projects, I'd be less effective having to track inboxes across half a dozen different hosting platforms.

      If you made something like Mastodon, where alerts propagate across instances, I could probably deal. But without that? No, I'll pass.

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    • It’s a great piece of software. I set it up in a Docker container, and have a few of their CI runners on a couple machines I own. Great experience so far.

  • I love Codeberg, but they're struggling with growth/scaling -- if folks want to see Codeberg succeed, they need to open their wallets.

Among enterprises I work with, I'm seeing way more migration to self-hosted Gitlab than I was a few years ago. Even among Azure-dependent orgs.

  • I think there’s some risk with this though too - more and more is behind the enterprise tier. People try to work around this in various ways but its an unsatisfying experience. For e.g. trying to enforce merge request approval with pipeline stages.

Gitlab is not really an option for me. Their pricing is absolutely out of this world.

Additionally there is Codeburg/Forgejo, and for the atproto-enjoyers, tangled.sh is a new face that feels like it could be good.