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Gogs: A self-hosted Git service written in Go

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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8217286

The project looks great, but it's ironic that it uses github.com to host itself [1].

The only message "not eating your own dog food" sends is this: "we're not doing it for ourselves, we're doing it for those who might find it interesting", which in turn sends a strong warning about the lifespan of the project.

[1] - https://github.com/gogits/gogs

It's possible the project doesn't (currently) have all the features they like when hosting on Github. Nothing says the project won't be moved in the future.

They could at list mirror it.

Github is an established brand in the industry. Presence on it is likely to get any project more exposure.

Github is still a great place to 1) get your project noticed 2) attract contributors and 3) manage issues/pull requests with little overhead.

If they self hosted this project, it would add unnecessary overhead to anyone who wanted to help out.

I always like to see projects reducing centralization of code hosting.

However, my initial reaction to the UI is that it almost feels like a ripoff of GitHub, since many UI elements are very close in layout and design - down to the same large icon on the left of the author's name (legally copied from GitHub via octicons, but still).

Requiring some programmers to also do an interface design different and better than one that has had millions poured into it is a pretty tall order.

Very nice. I can not see a graph of the commits. Kallithea (a fork of gitlab) in docker is an alternative we use.

I wonder how it compares to GitLab, which we use internally and it is really great, with very frequent updates.

I'm actually running this in favor of GitLab which might be more feature complete, but it was much too resource intensive for my taste. I haven't tested it, but the developers claim it can run on an rPi. What I can say is that running it has only added a negligible amount of load to my VPS.

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