Re: GitHub reliability

It seems you are referring to optional features.

GitLab can even be self-hosted from official packages, or you can compile the community edition from source yourself

# Clone GitLab repository
sudo -u git -H git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss.git -b <X-Y-stable> gitlab

Full docs https://docs.gitlab.com/install/self_compiled/

I may not be fully aware of additional licensing constraints so I welcome anyone who has a comparison matrix of licensing/hosting/support options. I know several people who self-host GitLab for free.

My $0.02
Seth



On Wed, May 13, 2026, at 9:59 PM, Peter Taraba via Boost wrote:
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> well, we dont need ai, but if they start blocking other features?
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> Best,
> Peter
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> *Subject:* [boost] Re: GitHub reliability
> Any reason GitLab is not being considered? I think that is also a community
> maintained platform?
> 
> On Mon, 11 May 2026, 7:50 am Klemens Morgenstern via Boost, <
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> > On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 9:53 AM Vinnie Falco via Boost <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM Marshall Clow via Boost <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On May 10, 2026, at 5:02 PM, Peter Taraba via Boost <
> > > [email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > Then they showed that they could no longer run it well
> > >
> > >
> > > I've used Gitea a few years ago and it looks like Codeberg's Forgejo is a
> > clone.
> > Back then Drone CI worked great with Gitea.
> > It seems that drone has been forked into Woodpeckers CI as well, which
> > Forgejo is using by default.
> >
> > Thus, the existing drone scripts should largely work.
> >
> > So either Gitea + Drone or Forgejo + Woodpeckers sound great to me.
> >
> >
> > > Yep. So, there is no urgency, and we should start thinking about what a
> > > migration plan might look like. How do we extract the open issues and
> > > transfer them? What do we do with the CI system? Release packages? Open
> > > pull requests?
> > >
> >
> > I think the first attempt should be to spin up a mirror of either Forgejo
> > and/or Gitea
> > and see how it works.
> > And then we set a date, at which we disable issues and PRs on Github
> > and use github as a pure (and automated) mirror.
> >
> >
> > > If for example we want to transfer the open issues then we should start
> > > collecting them now, because of rate limits (it could take weeks or
> > months
> > > to collect all the data which is not stored in the repo).
> > >
> >
> > Both have an "import from github" function, that allows you to import a
> > full project.
> > This is probably a good default, unless a maintainer wants to do it another
> > way (e.g. only transfer certains issues).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > We also might think about the libraries which are not actively maintained
> > > (if any?) we could reach out to authors and make sure everyone is aware
> > and
> > > involved in planning a migration.
> > >
> > > If we prepare now, we can be ready ahead of time, instead of having the
> > > issue forced on us when things become untenable at GitHub.
> > >
> > > Thanks
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