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Not sure if it's mentioned because I didn't read the whole thing but maybe it's good to know for those of you not familiar with Dutch government that most open source code (and possibly even private code) from all Dutch government orgs is currently hosted on private/public GitHub repositories.

If they move to self hosted Forgejo (which I assume this meeting is all about) Microsoft is going to lose a pretty big customer.

And yes, (good) CI is still is a big blocker to move to Forgejo for any org (or self hosting). Hope they can speed things up a bit there now they now a gov org is seriously interested.

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After having worked extensively with both I still feel that Gitlab CI is miles better than GH actions. I'm a bit stunned that forgejo aims to reimplement GH actions..

They're aiming at making it near effortless to migrate off GitHub, and 99% of all GitHub users are using Actions... so there's that.

But yes, they also should work on making it super easy to integrate best of breed OSS CI/CD with their SCM and turn Actions off. If they manage that they are on their way making a product which blows GitHub and Gitlab right out of the water. Because while Gitlab allows to integrate third party CI/CD it really feels clunky. (at least at the time I've used it professionally)

Forgejo’s agent is brilliant to be honest. It’s a very well contained service, written in Go and builds in practically anything. Even before it was supported, I was able to setup a couple of my old Macs to become agents for building iOS apps… my very own “Xcode Cloud” from the back the office.

A lot of the government are using public free accounts that I'm aware of.

I'm a 5+ year government employee, I touched quite some governmental repositories but all are non-paid.

I'm also a fan of the government hosting the code in an EU jurisdiction, preferably our own Dutch jurisdiction, and even better, self host.

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