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The morning of Tuesday, November 16th at 9:35, after reading a few toots suggesting that the federation of Gitea instances is not relegated to a Utopian future, I decided to finally self-host my own git forge.

Gitea

self-host my own git forge

If you just want to read about [GiTMI][gitmi], please jump to the Log.

Why

Why should anyone consider moving out of the great-looking, appealing and feature-packed GitHub, and deciding instead to switch to any of its less diffused alternatives, or even self-host one?

GitHub

• First, why not? Self-hosting an instance is [a nice experiment][rusingh-migration] to try, in my case to test skills, discover new things, and learn more about [practically working with open source][mte90-contribute-to-opensource]
• GitHub is centralized, meaning that either you have a GitHub account or you cannot open PRs, issues, etc.
• GitHub is becoming more and more a monopoly, specially since its acquisition by Microsoft
• As far as I know, GitHub is made to host open source software but its own source is not open! This is paradoxical and comically absurd!
• This is not so relevant, but GitHub is written in Ruby, while Gitea is written in Go; this makes Gitea rely on a more modern, faster (arguably the fastest) language and a newer framework.
• If you have more arguments to suggest, please comment below, I will be happy to add what you write to this list

GitHub is centralized

monopoly

acquisition by Microsoft

Ruby

Go

Log

<div class='yellow box' id='roadmap'>
    Follow <a href='https://gitmi.dev/tommi/gitmi/projects/1' title='GiTMI maintenance roadmap'>the main roadmap project</a> directly on GiTMI
</div>

A schematic log of what I am doing, setting up and maintaining [GiTMI][gitmi]

1. 2021.11.16, 8:44 Finding out that forges’ federation is actually going to happen

2. 2021.11.16, 10:17 Impulsively getting gitmi.dev domain

3. 2021.11.16, 10:25 Installing [Gitea][gitea] on [[Server|Xplosion Server]]

4. Downloading and using [GitTouch] as a mobile client

5. Solving connection issues via client CLI by editing the

6. Thursday 1 December 2022: finally effectively configured everything

Finding out

federation is actually going to happen

gitmi.dev

connection issues

Resources

A collection of inspiring and/or useful articles

• A forum thread concerning my migration, on [fedeproxy]’s forum
• [Migrating to Gitea][rusingh-migration], by [rusingh]

A forum thread concerning my migration

config

I collect all the customizations I apply to GiTMI in this repository.

in this repository

[fedeproxy]: https://fedeproxy.eu 'fedeproxy official website' [gitmi]: https://gitmi.dev 'GiTMI homepage' [gitea]: https://gitea.com 'Gitea official website' [rusingh-migration]: https://rusingh.com/github-codeberg-gitea-migrations '“GitHub to Codeberg to… Gitea?„ on Ru Singh’s blog' [rusingh]: https://rusingh.com 'Ru Singh’s personal website' [mte90-contribute-to-opensource]: https://leanpub.com/contributetoopensource-therightway '“Contribute to opensource: the right way„ by Daniele Scasciafratte' [GitTouch]: https://github.com/git-touch/git-touch 'git-touch on GitHub'

https://fedeproxy.eu

https://gitmi.dev

https://gitea.com

https://rusingh.com/github-codeberg-gitea-migrations

https://rusingh.com

https://leanpub.com/contributetoopensource-therightway

https://github.com/git-touch/git-touch