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Time for a European GitHub?
Already exists: Codeberg
Codeberg is only an alternative for FOSS software.
Most of my GitHub stuff for example is private client projects that I cannot simply publish. They don鈥檛 provide much value to others and might contain proprietary code. The same goes for private half finished side projects that I鈥榤 sure most people have on their accounts. Codeberg is simply not the right place for this.
You鈥檙e right, but neither is Github. You don鈥檛 want your proprietary code on some corporate platform. A self-hosted git server is the way to go for that.
The strength of platforms like Codeberg and Github lies in having a large userbase who can access your project to post issues, contribute code etc. No point in using them for things like private repos.
If it鈥檚 private code why not have a private git repository?
Self-hosting a Git Forge is very feasible. Closest hosted alternative platform is GitLab but I don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 still EU since it was listed on NASDAQ. Being a remote company, they don鈥檛 list a headquarters. I don鈥檛 know where their servers are based.
Yeah it鈥檚 not hosted in the EU. From their privacy policy:
Sharing Personal Data Across National Borders. Our Services are hosted in the United States and information we collect will be stored and processed on our servers in the United States.
There are some smaller providers that also offer Git via Forgejo or Gitea like Disroot. That might be fit for private use, but I haven鈥檛 personally tried it. Codeberg is great for more public facing FOSS projects but given their size I鈥檇 throw them a donation if you鈥檙e going to depend on it beyond personal scale.
That said, I just selfhost Forgejo using Coolify on a VPS in my home country. My goal is to migrate at some point to self hosting in my home, eventually.
Forgejo was really easy to set up with docker
It鈥檚 easy without docker too. It鈥檚 a single static binary.
I didn鈥檛 try 馃し prefer not to run bare metal but good to know!
I think GitLab is american, anyway, Forgejo it鈥檚 the best IMO and is also european
Then you host a Forgejo instance if you want to to have private repos
The right place for that is a private forgejo instance. Why put private data on somebody else鈥檚 computer?
Why not? I thought they support private repos as well as public ones
And I just happened to notice today that Gentoo are moving that way.
I enjoy the social aspect of GitHub. Follow the projects my friends are working on. Time for a federated Forgejo?
Edit: it鈥檚 a thing https://forgefed.org/
Obviously, we鈥檙e way more people and we鈥檙e better educated across the board.
It鈥檚 not obvious at all. We only now over took them.
China is a joke here. But it鈥檚 not representative.
I鈥檓 curious, what do developers in China use? I assume they have their own platforms of sorts? I鈥檝e seen some Chinese githubs but yeah not a lot
I guess it鈥檚 quite probable their tradition and culture don鈥檛 value opens source so much