A new pilot will investigate the use of Forgejo (A non profit FOSS alternative to github and gitea) in german schools (blog.codeberg.org)
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BOFH666@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 2023 10:40 next collapse

Noticed someone mentioning this (the product ) last weekend and did a next-next-finish install on some old hardware.

This is really nice, got me some nice actions running already.

I used to build locally and use git, cgit and Trac, but will probably move everything to forgejo.

dan@upvote.au on 14 Nov 2023 17:54 collapse

Trac

That’s a name I haven’t heard in a looong time. I used to use a pre-1.0 version before GitHub became popular.

Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 Nov 2023 11:10 next collapse

i was confused for way to long, trying to figure out
why a pilot would investigate a github alternative.

im an idiot 😂😂😂

andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun on 15 Nov 2023 03:35 collapse

He’s not even experienced, he’s new! Why’s he the one we picked to investigate?

beta_tester@lemmy.ml on 14 Nov 2023 11:34 next collapse

I knew about codeberg but not forgejo

Codeberg is a public non-profit Forgejo instance hosted by the actual maintainers of the tool. They’re compromised with free software and provide their services with no pay walls other than a single limitaiton: only accepting open-source projects in their instance. That shouldn’t be a problem if you want to work on open-source, right?

devforum.roblox.com/t/…/2505867

NightAuthor@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 2023 11:54 next collapse

Compromised?

dewittlebook@lemdro.id on 14 Nov 2023 18:02 next collapse

“Made up of” -> the non profit consists of software that must be free and open source…?

Patch@feddit.uk on 14 Nov 2023 20:42 collapse

It’s a typo. It should be “comprised”.

amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz on 14 Nov 2023 18:09 next collapse

I think they meant comprised?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 14 Nov 2023 18:19 collapse

This is the FOSS community, open up!

neshura@bookwormstory.social on 14 Nov 2023 12:14 next collapse

Forgejo is developed by the people at Codeberg, they just rebranded their own Forgejo instance to Codeberg and added some extra around it (like Pages or the FAQ sections)

ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org on 14 Nov 2023 18:13 next collapse

They’re compromised with free software

Lol

yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca on 14 Nov 2023 22:41 collapse

GitHub uses Git, and you don’t need any cool interface for Git, just a terminal. But we don’t like terminals, they’re ugly! Issues, pull requests, projects, wikis, actions… thanks to code management.

This guy doesn’t git.

[deleted] on 14 Nov 2023 11:48 next collapse

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neshura@bookwormstory.social on 14 Nov 2023 12:13 collapse

afaik none of the current options offer fedi support.

Forgejo is a Fork of Gitea made because Gitea is managed by a For-Profit company. Their code is almost identical, in fact Forgejo is a drop-in replacement for Gitea. Gitea and Forgejo are (iirc) both working on the same federation support but Forgejo seems to be further ahead since they announced that they’ll upstream the Federation code to Gitea.

[deleted] on 14 Nov 2023 12:16 next collapse

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cerement@slrpnk.net on 14 Nov 2023 18:27 collapse

from a couple random comments, it sounds like the migration to Codeberg is relatively nice – if you want to do the interim step of getting out of GitHub and worry about personal instance at some later point …

dan@upvote.au on 14 Nov 2023 17:58 collapse

What does being federated mean in this case? Git is already distributed. Is it just for discovery, or do you mean for things like issues and discussions?

neshura@bookwormstory.social on 14 Nov 2023 18:16 next collapse

exactl, issues, discussions, merge requests anything like that

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 14 Nov 2023 19:17 collapse

You’ll be able to (among other things) open a merge request from another instance. Gitlab and other source forges require you to create an account on each instance you want to contribute to.

dan@upvote.au on 14 Nov 2023 21:03 collapse

That’s a great use of federation. Thanks for the info.

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 14 Nov 2023 18:22 next collapse

I’m confused on the use of GitHub in schools, can’t they just host their own git?

Killing_Spark@feddit.de on 14 Nov 2023 23:01 collapse

Hah hahaha hahahahaha

Our school systems are admined by teachers with only half a clue of what they are doing with only a few hours per week as a budget. This isn’t meant as an offense, math teachers that like to fiddle with computers in their free time are just not qualified to run the infrastructure for schools

Source: am the son of such a teacher in Germany

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 14 Nov 2023 18:44 next collapse

Isn’t there a federated version of GitHub?

onlinepersona@programming.dev on 14 Nov 2023 19:12 next collapse

LMAO. That’s hilarious, babe.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 14 Nov 2023 20:38 next collapse

Sick comment, honey

[deleted] on 14 Nov 2023 23:49 collapse

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[deleted] on 14 Nov 2023 20:51 collapse

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andruid@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 2023 21:14 collapse

Not of Github, but Gitlab is working towards it now.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 2023 21:15 collapse

That’s what I meant

TCB13@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 2023 19:04 next collapse

Well at least they’re going to usei something decent and not the Apache Allura crap.

xohshoo@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 2023 23:33 collapse

wasn’t sure if I was on linux or esperanto community for a minute there