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We need to have a package of FLOSsoftware that you could run on the cloud of your choice that offers most of what GitHub does (niceties on top of Git) without the centralization.

GitLab was close last I remember but there was some sort of enterprise tier when I tried hosting stuff on a local server years ago. I want true FLOSS, not another SaaS equivalent of the coke dealer giving clients the good uncut stuff when they're just starting out only to sell crap when they're addicted.

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https://forgejo.org/ promises to be this, have only lightly used it on https://codeberg.org/ but it seems nice?

"Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge"

That says absolutely nothing. The "What is Forgejo?" question is unanswered and instead you get a lot of words about their values, their inclusivity, etc. And the next thing in the docs is how to install it. It's ridiculous.

I still don't know what it is or what it does.

Forgejo > The name of the software

self-hosted > You install it on your server

lightweight > It does not consume a lot of resources (cpu, disk, ram)

software forge > offers tools that help with creating software collaboratively (repository hosting, change request management, wiki for docs,…)

> a package of FLOSsoftware that you could run on the cloud of your choice that offers most of what GitHub does (niceties on top of Git) without the centralization.

You're in luck, GP comment described it for you.

“Software forge” is an established[1] term by this point: a piece of software providing a full set of features for collaborative development, usually at least code hosting with a web interface, tickets, and webpage hosting, and these days often also code review and integrated CI or at least the possibility of integrating CI. It’s admittedly squishy but in the same way “IDE” is squishy, which is to say it’s still well-defined enough to be useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)

Forgejo is pretty neat. Their CI story is sad because it's based on act and it lacks features like GH Apps so service accounts are not possible (using a user account as service is barf).

I self-host it and its pretty easy to have uptime higher than github when you have 3 users total.

Absolutely do not recommend using GitLab.

I'm particularly fond of the concepts within git-appraise, gits back to the federated foundations

https://github.com/google/git-appraise (unmaintained)

Have you looked into Forgejo?

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