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GitLab is relatively more free than Github, in the sense that there is a free version of the software you can host yourself.

But I still dream of an unequivocally free Git server and Web application, preferably written in Python rather than Ruby. Is there a reason Github, GitLab, and the now-dead Gitorious all chose Ruby?

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There is http://gogs.io/ written in Go

I'm looking forward it becomes v1.0. Gogs requires less system resources than GitLab.

Have you tried GitBucket? I've been pretty happy with how that development is moving forwards.

I think that the availability of gems for Ruby on Rails (compared to Django) really helped.

Why would you choose python?

I've learned a fair amount of both Python (plus Django) and Ruby (off and on Rails). I learned Python first, almost switched to Ruby, then went back to Python. Ruby, on Rails especially, has too much magic. I could simply rely on the magic, but I felt like my growth as a programmer would be inhibited as a result.

Have you heard of kallithea [1]? Not sure if it be what you want though because it also supports mercurial (and uses it for its development). But iirc, it's written in python.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea

Nice. It's developed by the Software Freedom Conservancy, which inspires confidence.

Thank you.

One of the dealbreakers for me with Kallithea at this point of time though is the lack of an issue tracker. I think their main reason for not having it was that they don't want to impose one when you could be using one already.

But I would like it all integrated nicely with the git web interface.

the Fedora folks are working on one here: https://pagure.io/pagure

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