• rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    311·
    10 months ago

    Gitlab.com just started doing shady stuff and requiring phone numbers or something on sign-up if what I read a few days ago here, is correct. For self-hosting the software should still be alright.

    Github.com is by Microsoft and not free software. I don’t know what direction Microsoft is taking with it, but it is widely adopted and they give you free CI and other stuff.

    Codeberg, Sourcehut etc should be fine. I haven’t heard negative things about them.

    “Best” is running my own Forgejo on my server. At least that’s what I think. But I also keep things on github, since all the people are there.

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        10 months ago

        It is git. You can fork repos. And some platforms can mirror a repository and keep it synced. If not, you’d need to build something with webhooks. Or keep both synced manually every now and then (or on a new release/tag.)

  • Loki@feddit.de
    213·
    10 months ago

    What’s best is probably hosting your own git server (for hopefully obvious reasons).

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      If you have the ability to host your own, then agreed 100% host your own. Microsoft proved that if companies are more than happy to mine your code

    • Capillary7379@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      From personal experience, if you’re hosting Gitlab and make it available to the internet, make sure to keep it updated or your server will be super slow hosting a crypto miner within a year.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
      6·
      10 months ago

      Depends on what you’re doing.

      If you want free offsite backups, collaboration with others, integration with other tools, etc., then self-hosting is the worst option.

    • sping@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Though the topic is git forges, so then the question is which one do you self host?

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    • You want your project to become popular, get stars and discussions ? : Github

    • You want control for your small hobby project ? : Self host Gitea or Forgejo

    • You don’t mind paying and supporting an open source developer ? : Sourcehut

    • tjhart85@kbin.social
      5·
      10 months ago

      Forgejo: for when you really don’t want to have to sanitize your scripts and don’t want to leak passwords, but want version control and a nice webui

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    173·
    10 months ago

    A controversial opinion, but github is the most widely recognized and worth the most on your resume.

  • mrhEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    codeberg

    it’s like github but non-corporate free software

    it’s very polished and featurful

    it’s built upon/by the same devs as forgejo, which is open tech to self host your own git server (with federation potentially coming), so supporting one supports the other

    • PlexSheep@feddit.de
      8·
      10 months ago

      Codeberg is a German non profit iirc, I host some stuff there but most is on my personal Forgejo.

      The Forgejo devs (mostly centered on Codeberg) are also the ones pushing for federalized code forges (I open a PR on your git server from mine and so on)

          • Fisch@lemmy.ml
            1·
            10 months ago

            To work on it from different devices, use features like issues, basically the same reason people use it for public repos instead of just uploading it as a zip somewhere. Sometimes you have stuff you don’t want to release to the public or it’s just not ready to release to the public yet.