Codeberg, self-hosting Gitea, or something else? (lemmy.world)

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It seems that GitHub is being blocked in my region as well as other options from U.S. based companies (e.g. GitLab)

Where should I migrate my repos? Codeberg is an option as it’s Europe based so isn’t blocked in my region. Codeberg Pages is also nice to have. However, Codeberg seems to push for excluding proprietary software dependencies, which might limit the kinds of projects I can do.

Another option is to self-host Gitea, I could use my old laptop for that. Gitea doesn’t have a GitHub pages, but there seems to be third-party plugins that allow that. The downside with self-hosting (for me) is that it means I’m unable to collaborate with others (since it’ll be local) and I can’t easily share my projects. It will also probably be harder to set up.

What other options are there, or are these two the best options for me?

edit: decided on Codeberg, how do I make my static pages to work with Codeberg Pages? I've switched to a "pages" branch and the website doesn't work (https://username.codeberg.page/repo-name/)

How do I make static pages work with Codeberg???

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[-] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

wait...how is forgejo developed on forgejo? If there is no forgejo to begin with, how did they begin developing?

edit: maybe they switched from github to forgejo a bit later?

[-] kensand@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

This process is called 'bootstrapping', and is actually quite common in software. For example, the C compiler is written in C. The first iteration of the C compiler was written by hand in assembly code with a very limitted feature set, and that compiler was then used to compile the next iteration, allowing the second version (I'm not sure it was actually the second version; there may have been a few iterations in assembly) to be written in C itself.

For Forgejo, you dont actually need Forgejo to build Forgejo; just a computer with the Go compiler and any other dependencies. Then, once you have the first version, you can publish the code you have on Forgejo. Nothing too crazy there 🙂

This also leads to 'dogfooding', which is a whole other term...

[-] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

ahh okay :0

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