Migrated to Codeberg

wet · 2025-04-27 07:23:41

I have migrated all of my plugins’ Git repositories to Codeberg as part of my efforts to reduce my reliance on US-based services.

Codeberg is a community-driven, open-source alternative to GitHub, focused on ethical collaboration and privacy, built on Forgejo and designed for hosting free/libre software projects without proprietary ties.

They provide a dedicated migration tool for a few Git hosts.

Dan Erat’s itinerary proved to be a helpful guide.

phiw13 · 2025-04-27 08:56:00

:thumbs up:

(and thanks again for you markdown plugin)

bici · 2025-04-28 02:29:58

wet wrote #339617:

I have migrated all of my plugins’ Git repositories to Codeberg as part of my efforts to reduce my reliance on US-based services.

Codeberg is a community-driven, open-source alternative to GitHub, focused on ethical collaboration and privacy, built on Forgejo and designed for hosting free/libre software projects without proprietary ties.

They provide a dedicated migration tool for a few Git hosts.

Dan Erat’s itinerary proved to be a helpful guide.

Thank-you for all you do and showing leadership in dumping GitHub, which I have never, particularly been a fan of.

wet · 2025-04-29 06:09:39

Thank you all for your opinions and advice. It makes me happy that I took the time to do this.

I have also taken the liberty of registering a renowned organisation’s name there, in case this ever becomes an issue.

Come and join in! It’s free (as in “beer”), though Codeberg is happy to enrol paying association members.

Bloke · 2025-04-29 06:37:42

Thank you, Robert. At the risk of making work for ourselves, I wonder if there’s any mileage in moving our repos that way. Or even running a self-hosted gitea instance.

As far as I recall, we’re not using much of the GitHub functionality beyond the basics so the only difference would likely be the endpoints. Not sure if we’d hit any of their limits in normal use, or if there’s much upheaval to transfer the CI pipeline stuff to Woodpecker.

Happy to take thoughts and advice on whether we feel the current political/economic climate makes a move worthwhile, and if so, whether there are any gotchas in the migration tool.

wet · 2025-04-29 07:43:52

IMHO: GitHub offers an established community and audience. You get issue reports, pull requests, and so on, when the stars are aligned.

I think this is why people still use the site formerly known as Twitter, post on Facebook and populate Instagram instead of Pixelfed and similar platforms.

The pros of Codeberg are: They are not part of the ‘nerd reich’. Choosing them is where your preferences and opinions matter. It’s not a technological choice, but one depending on your point-of-view. On the other hand, the GPL was once considered a form of communism anyway ;)

The migration tool works, in my experience.

Migration takes work. You have to redirect your audience, tool belt, etc.

Self-hosting a Forgejo (formerly Gitea) instance might be an option for a daring team member as part of their personal development, as we all do by contributing to Textpattern instead of using a website builder (or go cycling with their dog).

skewray · 2025-04-29 14:34:05

Self-hosting seems like an opportunity for a future single-point failure.

Bloke · 2025-04-29 15:27:28

skewray wrote #339633:

Self-hosting seems like an opportunity for a future single-point failure.

Likewise, putting all our trust in a single corporate entity is an opportunity for a future single-point failure. Plenty of services on which we and others relied have been pulled from the web due to one thing or another *cough* Google Code *cough*

skewray · 2025-04-29 17:21:08

I pulled my personal efforts off of Github years ago, and migrated to nowhere. I may put it all back up again at Codeberg, not that anyone is even remotely interested. I guess LLMs can scarf it up as examples of poor coding?

phiw13 · Yesterday 00:17:56

Bloke wrote #339636:

Likewise, putting all our trust in a single corporate entity is an opportunity for a future single-point failure. Plenty of services on which we and others relied have been pulled from the web due to one thing or another cough Google Code cough

You could, time allowing and the pesky things like that, consider at the minimum mirroring github/textpattern/textpattern to Codeberg. Just in case GH becomes more unusable & bloated than it is now, and the owner becomes evermore unethical (can that get worse ?).

gaekwad · Yesterday 15:08:20

skewray wrote #339633:

Self-hosting seems like an opportunity for a future single-point failure.

This.

Git as a protocol / workflow is somewhat fault-tolerant. GitHub as a platform is where developers tend toward, at present. There are pros and cons to the other hosted services: I’ve used GitLab (self hosted and North America .com), that comes fairly close to GitHub in terms of usability and features, but it misses the mark on a few things. I worked on a project using SourceHut (EU), which had quirks but seemed to work pretty well overall. I’ve lost sleep over single point of failure Gitea (as was) servers for one client.

Thanks for not mentioning Subversion or Mercurial, lads…

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