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EU is now outpacing the US in GitHub activity (github.blog)

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[-] AnnieByniaeth@feddit.uk 47 points 1 week ago

Time for a European GitHub?

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 100 points 1 week ago

Already exists: Codeberg

[-] AnnieByniaeth@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

And I just happened to notice today that Gentoo are moving that way.

[-] Pechente@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

If it's private code why not have a private git repository?

[-] madnificent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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.

https://gitlab.com/

[-] ashughes@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Forgejo was really easy to set up with docker

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

It's easy without docker too. It's a single static binary.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I didn't try 🤷 prefer not to run bare metal but good to know!

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 1 week ago

I think GitLab is american, anyway, Forgejo it's the best IMO and is also european

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Then you host a Forgejo instance if you want to to have private repos

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

The right place for that is a private forgejo instance. Why put private data on somebody else's computer?

[-] colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Why not? I thought they support private repos as well as public ones

[-] angrywaffle@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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/

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