I’ve recently set up my own Gitea instance and I figured I’d share a simple guide on how to do it yourself. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone looking to get started.
If you have any feedback please feel free to comment it bellow.
There’s been a hostile takeover at Gitea and it’s now run / owned by a for-profit company. The developers forked the project under the name Forgejo and are continuing the work under a non-profit. See also: Their introduction post and a page comparing the two projects. Feel free to look up more, since I haven’t familiarized myself with the incident all that much myself. Either way though, maybe consider using Forgejo instead of Gitea.
Hostile not quite, as it was a group of core developers. But still a shitty move, especially how it was done in secrecy and disregarding other devs and the larger community.
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I’ll be that guy: Use forgejo instead, its main contributor is a Non-Profit compared to Gitea’s For-Profit owners
Silly question but what is the problem with gitea being for profit?
I guess out of fear that we get another gitlab situation, where the open source offering has a load of key features eventually kept behind a paywall
As the other commenter already said it’s an abundance of caution. GItea is already moving in the direction of SaaS and an easily self-hostable solution runs counter to that plan (Gitea is already offering a managed Cloud so this is not a hypothetical). One thing that has already happened is Gitea introducing a Contributor License Agreement, effectively allowing them to change the license of the code at any time.
At some point they will do a Redis or Terraform and say no more open source, pay us to use it.
All contributions are now owned by us and not by the person who wrote it.
Thanks, I always keep forgetting what this ones called. I use a build of gitea from before it became shit but I keep telling myself I need to change to “that better one”.
If it helps, it’s supposed to be a drop-in replacement.
Try its fork forgejo instead.
Why?
In 2022, maintainers (…) founded the company Gitea Limited with the goal of offering hosting services using (proprietary) versions of Gitea. (…). The shift away from a community ownership model received some resistance from some contributors, which led to the formation of a software fork called Forgejo. From Wikipedia.
But check that it has all the features you need because it lags behind gitea in some aspects (like ci).
I started running my own Gitea instance because I wanted a private place to host my Obsidian notes.
I don’t have the time to read the article now, but permit a question: what do you use Gitea for?
I’m holding my dotfiles on a SSH server, clone/push over SSH, and it’s enough to do Git. I don’t need a ticket system, or wiki or anything (I use plaintext notes).
$ cat ~/.ssh/config Host srv Hostname srv.mywhatever.com $ git clone srv:/path/to/repo $ cd repo $ git pushGreat question
I always found setting up a git server from scratch to be quite confusing and I also like the webui that gitea offers.
But recently I have also started moving some of my github projects there so having a link (with a readme and everything) that I can share with others is important.
