cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/67880752

Hi, I want to self host a git service to display my work (electronics) for some recruiters. Which platform is the best? I’ve heard about Gitlab, Gitea and Forgejo. For me the fact that the platform doesn’t run some background analytics and does not sell my data is very important.

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    13 days ago

    If it’s for recruiters, put it on github. That’s the one they are most probably familiar with and you want to minimize barriers to access.

    • redjard@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      Also seo, I’ve sadly seen 4 year abandoned random forks rank as the first result and the actual project way below, just because it was on a self-hosted git. iirc that was the freedesktop one, so definitely not small, new, or low volume either.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1016·
      13 days ago

      If a corporate recruiter or technical recruiter can’t navigate a git forge that is not GitHub that is their failing not your problem to fix.

      • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
        201·
        13 days ago

        yeah but they won’t fix it. They’ll make a note that this candidate is difficult to work with and look for another.

        • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
          127·
          12 days ago

          Then you know the kind of environment the company fosters and do you want to work for an org that doesn’t have the decency to look at their applicants?

          • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
            162·
            12 days ago

            I don’t work for an org, I work for money.

            Why should I self-sabotage my options, they might have a shit hiring process and still pay well.

          • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            That only works for people who are higher up in their field of work, since they can pick and choose who they work for

            Most people going for junior/entry level roles don’t have that luxury

  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    26·
    12 days ago

    i tried all three for my personal use. so i can’t say much about collaboration aspects. anyway:

    • gitlab is old, stable and solid. and it eats half of your servers resources.
    • gitea and forgeji are for me equal in experience, which is makes sense, as one being a fork of the other. i haven’t had any issues with anything, from setting up, using openid as auth method, to ssh passthrough.
    • eventually i settled now on forgejo, simply for ideology reasons. it’s heavily developed, so things might change. but they have this nice attitude to not release a latest tag for docker. so you can’t accidentally update to a breaking change. had this issue with some other programs, which i spun up to quickly.
    • looking forward to federation feature on forgejo!
  • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
    163·
    13 days ago

    I’d say Forgejo as it is the most simple of the three. If you want more complexity (like CI/CD), then one of the other two. You can checkout Forgejo at codeberg.org.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Is the CI/CD still a faithful clone of github’s worst-in-show setup? Because if I had a plan for ditching GL, the CI keeps forgejo from being a contender.

    • Gulliver@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      Thanks for you reply, I did not know what CI/CD mean so just checked it, it’s not important for me because I want to display only finished project. Forgejo looks great and I just found it’s available as a TrueNas app which is great for me.

      • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        I’ve been running forgejo (and forgejo-runner for workflows) on TrueNAS for a little while now, without any issues really.

        The runner image is also available as a TrueNAS app, so if you ever do want CI/CD it’s pretty simple to set up.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusMEnglish
    11·
    12 days ago

    So I’m going to suggest something slightly different - put it on both github and codeberg, then note that its synced from your local repo as a mirror and link it in a readme.

    Gives you a few things

    • Readily accessible and fast options for the recruiter to access, even if your power is out / motherboard blows up / whatever.
    • Demonstrates your familiarity with a world beyond github
    • Demonstrates you can stand up your own local repo (if this is a thing they care about - if not don’t bother with your own repo for just this)

    As for the server itself I’d say forgejo personally.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    i just put git repos in a dir on my server and use ssh to push/pull

    if you need webui theres cgit.

    i can say its not very user friendly tho…

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago

    If you don’t need issue tracker, wki, CI etc., cgit will be enough. If choose from gitlab, gitea and forgejo, use forgejo.