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Gitea 1.10.0 Released

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Gitea is simply an amazing piece of software and a big thank you to all the contributors!

It really is comparable to Gitlab without the heft that Gitlab brings. Moreover, it is really straightforward to install and you can run it on a really low-end machine which makes it perfect to get up and running just to try it out.

I don't think the comparison to GitLab is reasonable: Gitlab brings a much broader feature set and has a much larger product vision https://about.gitlab.com/direction/maturity/ I'm mostly missing a native CI-support.

I do agree, that most "simply a GitHub-like web frontend for Git"-purposes Gitea sounds like a really awesome deal if simplicity and functionality. Looking at https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/ is really an impressive list.

Native CI is definitely going to cause a user base shift, drone-ci does the job but in my opinion the decision to not let users directly edit env vars makes it pretty annoying to maintain simple configurations - where you don't deport environment variables to some external secret manager which you'de put a key for in your CI, when such complexity is not needed for a project.

Not even close. GitLab made huge progress over the years.

Great software and I've started using it for some hobby stuff on my Macbook. Some of the default setup locations such as /usr/local/bin/custom/app.ini could be better, heck app.ini in that location could be anything! The FAQ at https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/faq/ does give a clear indication of where things go, so I put all my stuff in ~/.gitea and, a simple alias takes care of starting Gitea: alias giteaweb='gitea web -c ~/.gitea/custom/conf/gitea.ini'

I run mine in a container with a volume for persistence

Pretty stoked to try this out... Just dug into Gitea about a week or two ago. The make sure checks have passed will be a nice feature to make sure I don't fat finger things.

I just wish migrating from Gogs was more straightforward, if you're on a newer version of Gogs, it seems like an odyssey. I got about halfway through and then saw I was going to have to upgrade version by version, and just bailed. With that said, I'll probably just migrate the bits of data out PSQL by hand that I want from Gogs since that seems easier and less error prone.

Recently moved from gogs to gitea and yes, it can sound a bit daunting to upgrade version by version, but probably didn't took more than 5 min. Give it a try, i bet it sounds more complicated than it is!

I understand that Gitea focus on light-weight, painless instance: Just run a binary and you're done. That far I understand why I would choose Gitea over GitLab.

But what are the USPs between Gitea and https://gogs.io/ ? Both Go-based. Both using the same claims. Actually from the very first impression Gitea looks more polished than Gogs.

Update: Okay - I learned that Gogs a) has only one maintainer and b) can not make pull requests between branches of forked repositories. Also https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/ provides a first overview.

Gitea was originally a "community fork" of gogs

> I just wish migrating from Gogs was more straightforward, if you're on a newer version of Gogs,

For me it's either Gitlab (huge) or Gogs (small). Open source is great, thus Gitea could be forked and add more features. -- My instance works on Gogs fine since a long time, no reason to migrate.

There are some issues with Gogs not working with tags on Drone CI. I wouldn't have switched otherwise.

I had thought that Gitea would be self-hosted.

That's actually interesting, but there is some work already done in that area, but Gitea opposed to GitLab is not a company (nor group of $$-oriented people), but just a community-based effort, so I would not expect someone will invest in infrastructure and maintenance. However, it does not deny the fact they actually self-host the experimental/staging area[0] and time have been invested to migrate outside GitHub[1].

[0]: https://gitea.com/explore/repos

[1]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029

Thanks and congratulations! This may be the project that finally gets me to invest in learning go.

Gitea is just incredible.

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