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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:21:22 UTC Aral Balkan

   Folks: “just host your own GitLab”

   Me upgrading GitLab today: Fails due to key expiration error. Fix that. Re-run upgrade. Fails due to Let’s Encrypt provisioning error. Reconfigure. Re-run upgrade. Fails due to database migration error (it’s just one of those “expected batched background migration for the given configuration to be marked as 'finished', but it is 'active'” errors (we all know what those are like, amirite?). Fix that. Re-run configuration. Works.

   Now × by N “host your owns…”

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:21:59 UTC Aral Balkan

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     (Now, I fully expect to host my own git repositories in the future but the moral of the story is that it won’t be on a piece of software designed to run 1-100,000 accounts but one designed to be owned and used by one person. And it’ll be the same site/software I chat to my friends on. The difference in complexity between those two things is orders of magnitude. And what that translates to in practice is that the latter can be set up and maintained by everyday people without technical knowledge.)

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:25:42 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌
     @drq @aral I thought "adoptioi" was intended as a joke Greek plural for people who have adopted. Worked for me!
   • Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:25:43 UTC Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     @aral I thought about this yesterday, and I think the critical part of self-hosting adoptioi is being able to automate installation and ESPECIALLY upgrading to the point when it can be done SAFELY in a single command, so it can happen on cron, completely unattended.

     Mastodon is still far from this.

   • Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:25:43 UTC Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     @aral *adoption (Женя, когда, блин, редактирование включишь, я устал уже)

   • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs: (aryak@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:25:56 UTC Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:

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     @aral why would you run gitlab instead of gitea :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:25:56 UTC Aral Balkan

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     • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:

     @aryak Donno, ask the Gitea folks why they’d rather run GitHub rather than Gitea :)

     (On a more serious note: because Gitea wasn’t a thing when I started hosting my own GitLab.)

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   • Ru (ru@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:36:12 UTC Ru

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     • Humane Tech Now
     • Inhji 🚲>🚙

     @inhji Do you know of any "just works" set up for Gitea + CI/CD?

     @aral @humanetech

   • Inhji 🚲>🚙 (inhji@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:36:12 UTC Inhji 🚲>🚙

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     • Humane Tech Now
     • Ru

     @ru @aral @humanetech I have not been using CI/CD at all, so no. Maybe @jle has some insight?

   • Inhji 🚲>🚙 (inhji@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:36:13 UTC Inhji 🚲>🚙

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     • Humane Tech Now

     @aral I really urge you to try gitea. It's a single executable and a config file, it runs on SQLite and it's using about 100MB of RAM for a single tenant installation. Been using it for years and never had a problem with it. Seriously.😄

     And like @humanetech mentions, there are efforts to make it federated.

   • Gergely Nagy 🐁 (algernon@trunk.mad-scientist.club)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 12:02:59 UTC Gergely Nagy 🐁

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     • Humane Tech Now
     • Ru
     • Inhji 🚲>🚙

     @ru @inhji @aral @humanetech Drone/Woodpecker + Gitea are very easy to set up together. I can share a docker-compose.yml once I'm home (in a couple of hours).

     Been using that pair for 4+ years now, gone through multiple upgrades, almost all flawless. The single time I had trouble, was my own fault for not reading upgrade notes.

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   • a1ba-nyan (a1ba@expired.mentality.rip)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 22:51:04 UTC a1ba-nyan

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     @aral gitlab for personal use feels a bit overkill...
     
     well, everything that has that enterprise smell is usually not a good choice for self-hosting, even if it's opensource (tm).
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