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.
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!
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.
Github is microslop, a company who supports a fascist regime. So no, worst choice.
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.
yeah but they won’t fix it. They’ll make a note that this candidate is difficult to work with and look for another.
They don’t even have to “look”. Just grab the next resume off the stack.
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?
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.
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
I mean that really depends on how badly you want the job.
Gitea for me, never had an issue with it. Work’s great!
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.
Gitea is not fundamentally different than Forgejo, Forgejo is just a better fork of it. Better in terms of: more contributors, more users, dogfooding (Gitea is built on Github 🤦).
But yes, GitLab is like the Mac of Git forges: everything is included, doing everything their own way, vendor lock, very expensive. There is a community edition but serious users will run into its limitations and it does not integrate neatly with external solutions.
Forgejo is IMO the Linux of Git forges: low on resources, expandable, hackable, stable.
