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Comment by skrrtww

19 hours ago

A "reasonable" answer is probably a primary self-hosted Forgejo instance as the canonical forge, while using GitHub as a mirror solely to take advantage of its free CI, while that lasts, while hosting secrets with a dedicated secret-hosting provider (I don't know what the provider du jour for this is these days).

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latchkey  19 hours ago

Replace a whole 24/7 team of devops people with myself?

As much as I'd like to believe that I'm worthy, I'm not.

  • skrrtww  19 hours ago

    If the primary forge's only job is to host the actual Git infrastructure (the code, the MRs, the issues, maybe a wiki), it's a lot more simple than GitHub, and probably more within the scope of what people can reasonably administer themselves.

    • latchkey  18 hours ago

      I hosted the first "java.apache.org". I was an early employee at CollabNet, and in the first discussions around starting subversion. I worked on Cloud Foundry.

      This stuff isn't easy and I'm more than happy letting someone else do it at the expense of some downtime.

embedding-shape  18 hours ago

> solely to take advantage of its free CI, while that lasts

Eh, if you want to be able to continue working, deploy and what not as normal during weekdays, I'd suggest also moving to Forgejo Actions if you're moving anyways. Not 100% compatible, but more or less the same, and even paying the same but with dedicated hardware you'd get way faster runners.

  • skrrtww  17 hours ago

    For companies with resources for infrastructure, sure.

    For OSS, the unlimited free minutes of multiplatform CI offered by GitHub are literally impossible to replace. Maintaining runners yourself to do the same things would be somewhere between a part- and full-time job.

    • embedding-shape  16 hours ago

      > For OSS, the unlimited free minutes of multiplatform CI offered by GitHub are literally impossible to replace.

      Yeah, how you think the ecosystem got by before GitHub even had actions? Y'all don't remember Travis CI et al anymore?

      There are more CI services than what Microsoft offers the world, sometimes it's worth looking around a bit.

    • esseph  12 hours ago

      > https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/

      "Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides services to free and open-source projects, such as Git hosting (using Forgejo), Pages, CI/CD and a Weblate instance."

      Never say impossible.

      Github is still "new" to a lot of us. OSS existed well before it, and will continue to exist well after.

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