> Perhaps it's unjustified, but whenever someone mentions Gitea the first thing I notice is that *its own developers* host their project on GitHub...
> It seems odd to rely on a proprietary service instead of their own product that's supposed to be a direct replacement for it, and doesn't imply great confidence in the latter. I'd imagine this is more for historical reasons. Seems like they're working on this: https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 On Sat, Feb 23, 2019, 11:30 AM Francis Herne <m...@flherne.uk wrote: > On Saturday, 23 February 2019 21:12:08 GMT Wyatt Childers wrote: > > I'm not an active contributor. I am a developer though, who's employer > uses > > gitlab... Not a huge fan. My main complaint is it tends to be slow, and I > > find the UI a little less intuitive. Recently they even broke copy and > > paste site wide on their instance -- which was very frustrating. > > > > I recently stumbled upon this project: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea > > > > I would pose it as an alternative that's very familiar feeling to GitHub, > > and written in a much more efficient language (Go vs Ruby), which should > > result in a lower operating cost. > > > > I want to be clear, I am very appreciative that many projects have been > > working to evaluate GitLab, and I don't think it's the worst option. I > just > > wanted to pose this as well to the community as well. More informatively > > than anything else. > > > > Best, > > > > Wyatt > > Perhaps it's unjustified, but whenever someone mentions Gitea the first > thing I > notice is that *its own developers* host their project on GitHub... > > It seems odd to rely on a proprietary service instead of their own product > that's supposed to be a direct replacement for it, and doesn't imply great > confidence in the latter. > > - Francis > > >
