So...if I'm going to migrate off GitHub, I have choices. I could self-host (on Dreamhost, my go-to provider, or maybe SDF). Or I could use something like Sourcehut. My projects aren't very big or heavy in traffic. Curious what folx on Fedi have tried and found useful.
@neauoire Do go on!
@roadriverrail We don't have the know-how, and connectivity to handle our own online repositories setup, so srht is a good fit. If we lived on land and I knew about servers and things like that, I'd say self-host is the way.
@roadriverrail Being git-challenged personally, I like that patch coming in through the srht mailing list can be merged with the press of a button. This has made working without Github's PR interface a walk in the park.
@roadriverrail I have a few things on https://git.m0yng.UK using @gitea
If you go this route, be sure to have a nice robots.txt to stop all the SEO crawlers from checking every single diff page
@roadriverrail @gitea well to be fair, it's not a problem. But when I looked at my logs 90%+ was crawlers, and I don't want that so I tried to stop it. Doesn't mean you would also be bothered by it.
@roadriverrail @M0YNG Codeberg (@codeberg ) has a thorough robots.txt that you can copy https://codeberg.org/robots.txt and we have a guide on how to add one https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/search-engines-indexation/
@roadriverrail That's the reason we created Codeberg. https://blog.codeberg.org/community-maintenance-matters.html
Other good options include disroot's Git service, and potentially SDF and sourcehut, too.
@hankg Yeah, I know a lot of people use and like Gitlab, and it's on the list I'm considering. Curious if there are advantages/costs to self-hosting there? I want to keep my maintenance overhead low but also have good longevity in my service.
@roadriverrail I've been using codeberg, though I don't use any of its collaboration features -- just as a place to backup + share code.
@roadriverrail I've been loving srht, the mailing list tool on its own is invaluable.