So, who's still left on GitLab?

[sylvie@gabriel.havfruefestning.com]

@neil GNOME and related projects
https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups/active

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@neil For me, the main attractions of Github were remote git hosting and free building and testing of my code on Mac OS and Windows. When Github started pushing their Copilot nonsense, I started looking for alternatives. Forgejo doesn't give me Mac/Windows testing, but for my own projects it's easier to just drop Windows support altogether. In the past I tried to make sure my code was reasonably portable and worked on exotic platforms like Windows, but I do this in my free time and Microsoft doesn't care about developers like me, so I don't really see the point anymore.

[smilingdemon@mastodon.art]

@neil yay (not yay). So much meaningless fluff packed in around that too. I really can't wait for this thing to actually pop and done if these companies and CEOs to disappear in clouds of smoke

[astraluma@tacobelllabs.net]

@Juankprada @neil Forgejo (there's a few instances)

Source Hut

Tangled's an up-and-comer

Niche stuff like gitolite

[astraluma@tacobelllabs.net]

@Juankprada @neil I'm largely moving to Forgejo because they have largely compatible Actions, good mirroring features, and working on ActivityPub-based federation.

Plus, Forgejo's relationship with Codeberg means there's some resemblance of a financial plan.

[astraluma@tacobelllabs.net]

@Juankprada @neil because of Teahouse Hosting, I rank forges by "do they have CI/CD, and do they have OIDC tokens?"

GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo do (and BitBucket, kinda).

Gitea is working on it.

Source Hut and Tangled don't have OIDC.

[secretbatcave@don.secretbatcave.co.uk]

@neil gitlab is a prime example of a product succeeding despite the best efforts of the product team.

We used them for 4 years right up until 2020. When it worked it was great, it’s just it had the same uptime as GitHub has now.

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@sylvie @neil Yeah, debian also (salsa.debian.org). I can't believe they're planning to github gitlab.

[keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca]

@neil I'll chime in here and say that if one is looking for something very fully-featured and is gonna sysadmin it themselves, Phorge (the currently-maintained community phork of Phabricator) is pretty swell.

A buncha years back at my work we were looking to finally ditch the proprietary bugtracker we used which supported up to Ubuntu 12.04 (!!!) and I did a survey of the options out there and it was the only one that didn't seem to majorly suck. And despite having a ton of features, frankly more than most people could possibly need, it runs fine on a toaster . . . barring LLM scraping doing DDoS attacks all the time, at least.

So yeah, for a single user self-hosting only Git repos Phorge is probably overkill, but if one finds oneself with any particular requirements or really wants All The Features (bugtracker! stackoverflow-style Q&A! code review! a hierarchical wiki! blogging! meme storage! countdowns! calendar! time tracking!) it gets ya *a lot* with rather little overhead.

[pmdj@mstdn.social]

@neil I’m currently running a GitLab instance. It was good for some years but the writing’s been on the wall for a while - performance has been going downhill (private instance, can’t blame bots), questionable communication from leadership and signs of “AI” popping up.
Migration’s not quite trivial though, the faff of moving tasks/issues is real. Worse, Forgejo’s CI is very basic and at minimum needs a new runner that supports something other than Linux Docker containers.

[thepwnicorn@infosec.exchange]

@neil Ugh, expect software quality to go down hill.