I’ve seen some comments about how “gitlab bad” or whatnot, why do people prefer Codeberg over GitLab?
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Codeberg is fully open source(forgejo) while gitlab has an open source core+community edition but a source available propietary enterprize edition.
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Codeberg is a nonprofit with no ulterior motives. Gitlab is a publicly traded for profit entity with a goal to make profit
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This could just be me, but codeberg feels a lot more transparent. When they have outages, they explain why.
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Super minor, but the codeberg team “self-hosts” their own servers so you only need to trust the one entity rather than additionally trusting the server provider.
self-hosting is great but that still means datacenter someplace. I’ve been using GitLab for some time now and CodeBerg “feels weird” to me. But then it could be my biases and “muscle memory”. I’d say whatever feels right for you.
Unlike other big name Git hosting company who chose to use AI to “steal” from hosted projects other two did not stoop that low. So there’s that.
that still means datacenter someplace
no, you can also self host on your personal computer and simply mirror everything that you’re throwing on Codeberg.
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GitLab is not completely open source. It is owned by a for profit corporation.
Codeberg runs on Forjego which is open source. It is run by a non-profit.
Just curious, what part isn’t open source? I’m running a dockerized instance of it on my local server and have made my own modifications to the rails code in several places to meet my needs closer. Haven’t seen anything that would indicate it wasn’t open source, so just wondering where I should be looking. Unless these comments are related to the .com website and not personal instances
I am not sure of the specifics but their website says
GitLab’s open core is published under an MIT open source license. The rest is source-available. Everyone can contribute to making GitLab better. View our transparent roadmap and propose features your project needs.
