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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

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