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Time for a European GitHub?
Already exists: Codeberg
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 don’t provide much value to others and might contain proprietary code. The same goes for private half finished side projects that I‘m sure most people have on their accounts. Codeberg is simply not the right place for this.
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.
If it’s private code why not have a private git repository?
The right place for that is a private forgejo instance. Why put private data on somebody else’s computer?
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.
Yeah it’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 haven’t personally tried it. Codeberg is great for more public facing FOSS projects but given their size I’d throw them a donation if you’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.
Forgejo was really easy to set up with docker
It’s easy without docker too. It’s a single static binary.
I didn’t try 🤷 prefer not to run bare metal but good to know!
I think GitLab is american, anyway, Forgejo it’s the best IMO and is also european
Then you host a Forgejo instance if you want to to have private repos
Why not? I thought they support private repos as well as public ones
I enjoy the social aspect of GitHub. Follow the projects my friends are working on. Time for a federated Forgejo?
Edit: it’s a thing https://forgefed.org/
Obviously, we’re way more people and we’re better educated across the board.
It’s not obvious at all. We only now over took them.
China is a joke here. But it’s not representative.
I’m curious, what do developers in China use? I assume they have their own platforms of sorts? I’ve seen some Chinese githubs but yeah not a lot
I guess it’s quite probable their tradition and culture don’t value opens source so much
