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[ianthetechie@fosstodon.org]

@Gina voted for GitLab mostly because I have direct experience with it and I have none with Forgejo. Also I could be wrong but it seems to be more mature.

It’s really a hard question though. One is backed by a company which could always turn. But it’s also a lot more likely to be around and actively developed in 15 years (IMO).

I’ve self hosted GitLab CE (and more recently upgraded to EE for one feature which I don’t remember) for over 10 years and have no complaints.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@erikjan btw there's a good chance that @SURF is already working on something like this (and if not, they would be the first I would think of) @wlaatje

[gord1i@fosstodon.org]

@Gina we've been using GitLab community edition internally at the City of #CapeTown for about 7 years, and it's worked well for us, without any of the paid for features.

I think a big question is how much of the project management stuff is core vs *nice to have* - do you need just git + a code review platform, vs git + code reviews + an internal Jira, too?

I've been fairly surprised how effective/under developed the idea of issue management has been in our context, so GL has worked for that

[aaronmccollum@fosstodon.org]

@Gina Voted Gitlab, no issues with it personally and it's more well-known. Both look like good options though.

[suetanvil@freeradical.zone]

@Gina

Why not use (and fund) Codeberg? It's already established and has a user base and it's located in the EU.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@suetanvil we need our own self-hosted codeplatform. Forgejo is what Codeberg uses.

[erikjan@fosstodon.org]

@Gina @SURF @wlaatje I did pitch this to someone in the SURF innovation team and their initial thoughts were that they did not think this would be something they could convince the universities to pay for

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@erikjan @SURF @wlaatje lol I dont think universities ever want to pay for anything though

[lig@fosstodon.org]

@Gina
Proud to be a part of the community that votes like this.

[reshi@fosstodon.org]

@Gina So, I might be repeating what has been said, but as someone who ran both (Gitlab on corporate and Forgejo for personal projects), I'd say Gitlab has more of the bells and whistles to handle complex projects. Especially for project planning, it has been great even at the free version.

However, because of the ethical merits and federation of Forgejo, perhaps its a good idea to discuss with Forgejo devs and fund some more enterprise features?