If you need the features in the Premium offering, you still have to purchase licensing.

There's only a couple of missing features (for me, anyway) if you self host compared to the premium licensed self-hosted version (which, insanely, is the same price as the SaaS product!):

* CODEOWNERS

EDIT: Not true anymore! -- ~ * Protected branches (IE; preventing people committing to master/main) ~

* Approval Rules in merge requests

* Merge trains (auto-merging if another merge request depends on another).

* Viewing Jira issues in Gitlab

Gitea had issues a few years back with mirroring many repositories at once, deadlocking and remaining that way until it was reinstalled, essentially. It led me to believe it's not the most stable software but I would imagine it's improved quite a lot over the years.

It is extremely simple and easy to set up, though, and works well as both a private as well as a publicly hosted instance out of the box, depending on how you configure it.

Actions are mostly still in beta with 1.19, disabled by default.

In general, one big thing that's been mentioned is that our actions don't currently support things like services (among other things), so while they are good for a quick CI, they aren't quite ready to replace a full CI system yet.