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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.

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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.

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