It is developed in the interest of the general public instead of for generating massive amounts of money for the GitLab stock holders
It has bidirectional mirror (push and pull) for git repositories and GitLab only does it one way, the worst example of crippleware I can imagine. And the only motivation to remove that basic feature is to make more money.
@earlwarren@ikonoklast@forgejo@Codeberg Forgejo and Woodpecker are also fully open source. Gitlab and Drone are open core.
(I personally use Jenkins for a CI/CD which is arguably by far the most capable CI/CD, but there is a non-trivial learning curve to it and it might be overkill if you just need something simple.)
FWIW, Forgejo and Gitea generally have GitHub compatible APIs, which means more stuffs tends to work out of box for them. The GUI is also more familiar coming from Github. Forgejo also has emerging federation support, including ActivityPub.
@vwbusguy@ikonoklast@forgejo@Codeberg Yes, GitLab has bidirectional mirror feature as a proprietary only feature. That's the worst kind of crippleware.
@vwbusguy@forgejo@Codeberg definitely something to consider. A client of mine went with Gitea because they didn't want their IP in a public repo and didn't want to pay licensing to GitHub or GitLabs for private hosting. I don't think gitea has the CI tools, which at the time didn't seem like a requirement for what we're doing, but soon could be.
@thatsten@forgejo@Codeberg Woodpecker is a FOSS fork of Drone. Drone got really goofy with the licensing - I haven't checked recently to see if they backed off in that or not.
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