In the wake of the “GitHub CEO stepped down, no longer independent” news, I’m reminded that not enough people know about @Codeberg — free Git hosting run by a non-profit organization.
No tracking, no ads, no corporate buyout risk. Just open-source, community-driven software hosting.
Give it a try → https://codeberg.org
#opensource #freesoftware #git #devcommunity #indieweb #decentralization
I should have added: Codeberg's focus is on public repositories / FOSS software. From the FAQ:
"Codeberg's mission is to promote free/libre software. [..] If you do not contribute to any free/libre software project at all, Codeberg is unfortunately not the right place for you."
@lutzhuehnken Huh. Interesting. I guess their FAQ must be out of date
https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F
It reads:
Codeberg's mission is to promote free/libre software. Keeping software private is obviously not our primary use case, but we acknowledge that private repositories are useful or necessary at times.
The rules of thumb are:
If you are a contributor to free/libre software projects, we allow up to 100 MB of private content for your convenience. Use it for your personal notes, your side project or any other you want to keep private.
I need more clarification on this rule!
If your private content is strictly required for a free/libre software project (like team-internal discussions, preparation of security patches, or preparing a release for a limited amount of time), private content will also be tolerated.
If you use more than 100 MB of private storage for the use cases mentioned earlier, please send us a request and we can evaluate it.
If you do not contribute to any free/libre software project at all, Codeberg is unfortunately not the right place for you. However, check out the alternatives, we're sure you'll find a cozy place for your work.
@Hyperlynx I apologize, you're right of course. I hadn't read the FAQ, it's pretty clear:
> If you do not contribute to any free/libre software project at all, Codeberg is unfortunately not the right place for you.
@lutzhuehnken @Hyperlynx Indeed – it is too much volume. We just have a set of rules and hope that a user will do what they think is right. We have a relative amount of lenience (e.g. we won't get angry if you got to 110 MiB and you didn't request that extra 10 MiB).
(As in: Please don't make a private backup of your entire PC in a private repository though, we will notice that eventually and we don't like it when donated money is used that way. :D) ~n
@Codeberg oh, my guess was that you added folks to have private repos based on whether they're contributors to this thing or other, and that @lutzhuehnken was one.
I think I've drastically underestimated the size of the FOSS-sphere, such that I thought that was feasible :)
@Codeberg @lutzhuehnken @Hyperlynx For instance, there is this one gem for a DSL I'm working on, I'm considering local hosting, just to make sure its not bugging or nothing breaks when using it.
( I'm not entirely sure what size is normal for DSLs. )
@Hyperlynx ah I just found their rules here: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse.md
I suppose that might not work for some commercial projects indeed. But you can always host your own Forgejo if you wanted 😁
@lutzhuehnken @Codeberg
And even fewer people know that git hosting is an add on, not a part of git.
Or that you can put a git repository on a bog standard webserver.
Bookmarking for future use. Thanks for the share
@lutzhuehnken
Interesting timing. Today was the day that I migrated 100+ repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. I found this tool (just need the main script) https://github.com/LionyxML/migrate-github-to-codeberg - created tokens on GitHub and Codeberg and it was done. Now going back to delete GitHub repos.
Effortlessly migrate GitHub repositories to Codeberg! Seamlessly transfer project. Powered by Bash, curl, and jq. - LionyxML/migrate-github-to-codeberg
@lutzhuehnken @Codeberg looks cool. I made an account to try it as an alternative to GitHub.
It looks like they don't have gist-like functionality -- is there something similar available elsewhere? What do you use for posting code snippets and similar things?
This PR adds Gist support to Forgejo. Gists are small Git Repos. They are used to share Codesnipets. ### Implementation: - Each Gist has it's own random UUID (e.g. `7f4d4b2b`). They can be accessed using the `/gists/{gistuuid}` route. - You can have multiple Gists with the same Name (e.g. Lo...
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