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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by grant@toast.ooo to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've seen some comments about how "gitlab bad" or whatnot, why do people prefer Codeberg over GitLab?

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[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Something not mentioned yet: Forgejo, the software running Codeberg, has a smaller feature set and narrower scope than GitLab ("GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform" from their website).

Forgejo is much easier to administrate for smaller groups. For example compare the dependencies mentioned in the Forgejo installation documentation and the Gitlab installation documentation.

[-] second@feddit.uk 15 points 10 months ago

That's a bit of an unfair comparison - that's the GitLab instructions to install from source. Most people use a package (rpm, deb) to install GitLab.

The installation instructions for GitLab from prebuilt binaries is https://about.gitlab.com/install/, and that's significantly shorter.

That said, I think for most home applications, GitLab is hugely overkill.

[-] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes that's true. I guess what I wanted to point out is that GitLab has dependencies like Postgres, Redis, Ruby (with Rails), Vue.js... whereas Forgejo can use just SQLite and jQuery.

[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago

sqlite is not something one would use for a database with a lot of users, postresql or mysql/mariadb is a better choice in these circumstances. and i don't think having jquery as a dependency in 2023 is a positive sign. not sayibg the software is bad, it's just different.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Fortunately they were inaccurate, and it supports mariadb and postgre too.
In the documentation, they leave sqlite and mssql to the last places in the listings.