Gitea

“I've started hosting most of my private projects on a self hosted gitea, but one roadblock I've found is oidc auth”

“Gitea is so confident in their ability to handle load that they host their own development on GitHub”

“I can also recommend hosting your own Gitea/Forgejo instance, it has an automatic repository mirroring feature that fetches the repo regularly.”

“A lot of actions, maybe even the entire action runner itself wouldn't/couldn't/didn't work.”

“using the gitea container for the actions and ci is worth it compared to something marginally lighter weight”

“That's quite annoying - "security fixes" - but no information if your installation is affected or not?”

“Bizarre policy. Any bad guys unaware of the security implications are analyzing the patch diffs as we speak, so this seems nonsensical to me.”

“a commit and PR solely described as "Fix path resolving" making it hard for anyone running Gitea to even know this is a security fix”

“a marvelous project that is still modern and inherits a marvelous amount of human time and work within”

“Gitea is powerful and lightweight, and a push-mirror to another service is a plus as a backup location.”

“we grew tired of not having a web view to comment and review patches so we switched to gitea”

“All upgrades, including major changes, have been as easy as just changing the tag and reloading the container.”

“Gitea is still community driven as before, there are yearly elections for the community maintainers”

“Given that gitea also allows mirroring with Github, the team would be able to even switch to Gitea as the "main" git remote”

“I spent a couple of years on self-hosted Gitea, including doing some work on Gitea itself to add features we wanted.”

“Gitea (and its popular fork, Forgejo) are very lightweight. You can easily stand up an instance on a cheap VPS.”

“I also evaluated gitea and saw they were offering a commercial multitenant service where my 3p hosting wouldn't be welcome”

“People should either self-host a gitea/forgejo/gogs server for like 3$ a month on hetzner or just use gitea.com.”

“I use it as my main forge and mirror to Github for discoverability and community reports and contributions.”

“gitea running on my metalbox for nearly a decade has seen no compromise and 100% uptime”

“The Gitea interface is already a pretty good interface that can be accessed from any browser on any device.”

“Has been running for 3 years! If you lock it down so that it is just available in LAN and no internet, it is a solid, timeless experience.”

“the permissions system needs a lot of work. There's still an open bug which doesn't let anyone but the repo owner read CI logs”

“It's easier, and somehow more reliable to self-host a Gitea instance on consumer hardware than it is to rely on GitHub.”

“If you want a GitHub-like UI (with org/repo structure limitations) use either Forgejo or Gitea.”

“our Gitea instance has had several minutes of downtime combined over the last few years”

“I run a web server, gitea instance, matrix homeserver, and a slew of other things on it.”

“it's working very well and brings a rather large set of features you'd expect from a GH alternative”

“For sensitive apps, it can't merge them, so I have to hit the button in the Gitea web interface”

“Self-hosted Gitea is a good time if you're comfortable taking care of backups and other self-hosting stuff.”

“I've put something on it (Gitea, I think) that has the web interface for submitting PRs, reviewing them, merging them”

“locking out features purely because "that's what GitHub does" was just utterly unacceptable to me”

“It is easy to install, can be very well integrated into the usual corporate Microsoft networks (ldap/adfs)”

“using a self-hosted instance of Gitea / Forgejo will give you a replacement for the essential parts of GitHub”

“excellent choices for automatic mirroring of any Git repos you fear may be shutdown by DMCA shenanigans”

“the CI is based on GH Actions, so you can probably reuse your workflows without the need to adapt them”

“Gitea has a builtin defense against this, REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW=expensive, that completely stopped AI traffic issues for me”

“I cannot recommend it enough after using it "in production" daily for more than five years.”

“Gitea on the other hand doesn't mind sucking up free-of-charge contributions and handing them to a company”

“I will prefer the product which does not have a commercial offering and financial incentives to sabotage it.”