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gitea, drone

Gitea is commercial now though. historically speaking, it's likely just a question of time until they switch to a more restrictive licence to extract more money.

They also added their own CI system the other day. Haven't tried it myself, but I don't think drone-ci is necessary anymore.

IMO Gitea is fairly protected against a 'random' relicensing, as the project does not use a contributor licensing agreement.

While license and quality shenanigans can still happen, say if their technical oversight committee went bad, they cant do the same sort of rugpull done by projects that made contributors give all ownership interest to a single party.

GOGS (gitea's origin project) is still around and keeps moving at its own pace, as well.

Forgejo which powers codeberg recently hardforked from gitea and is looking like a nice alternative

maybe, or maybe not. https://lwn.net/Articles/963608/

Reading through all this drama frankly demotivates me from using any of these projects.

I'll stick to pushing to a bare Git repository via SSH for my personal projects. Plain Git works fine for that.

Sad but true.

Drama usually centeres around a certain kind of person after all, and Gitea literally forked with a shitton of drama back in the day.

While the gogs developer only set the record straight and moved on with his life, the Gitea forkers kept drumming up controversy for weeks

Ditto.

An "ssh init --bare" is enough, and after the first pull everything's the same.

But I'm generally of the mind that not everything needs to be public all the time, so I'm OK with not having a wiki and issues on such bare repos.

Gitea is as commercial as sourcehut.

Gitea's CI was marked stable in 1.19 in March 2023.

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