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what is the best alternative to github ? my main requirements are that

  1. it should be free, and
  2. it should not go down or get discontinued anytime soon
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[–] cult@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Let's do em all!:

  • GitHub: most mature/reliable
  • GitLab: the most popular and mature GitHub alternative. Generally seen as a more ethical alternative since it's not owned by MS and is open-sourced, but is still criticized for it's open-core business model
  • Bitbucket: the "third party" of the bunch that's no better than the first
  • GitTea: the "fourth party" that's actually cool but kinda not quite there yet. Worth keeping an eye because it's the most likely to integrate with ActivityPub soon
  • Gogs: great, but you need to self-host. GitTea is just a community hosted fork of Gogs
  • SourceForge: wow, they're still around?
  • Codeberg: centered around open-source projects only. Managed by a non-profit org
  • Launchpad: run by Canonical (Ubuntu), has a lot of other features/goals than just hosting code
  • GitBucket: a self-hostable GitHub clone written in Scala
  • NotABug: another "liberated" version of Gogs
  • Radicle: imo, one of the most interesting alternatives to look at. It's unique in that it's build on p2p technologies. Unfortunately, it seems quite coupled with many projects in the web3 space
  • Pagure: RedHat developed git forge that can be selfhosted
  • Phorge: community fork of Facebook’s internal Phabricator forge tool which was deprecated in 2011 but got a lot of things right that GitHub is often criticized for
  • Heptapod: Gitlab modified to work with Mercurial
  • Fossil: self-contained small team collaboration tool doing its own thing entirely
  • Kallithea: git and hg web frontend with code review functionality (community fork of Rhode code)
  • RhodeCode: git and hg frontend (original codebase where Kallithea forked off)
  • Sourcehut: email centric git frontend

Would love to see other people's one-liner blurbs on these as well

EDIT: added additional alternatives and comments (thanks @poVoq@slrpnk.net especially)

[–] lynndotpy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I can vouch for GitLab. I first heard of it in the self-hosted context. If it goes down, it'll either get the community supporting it (open source), or at the very least, a plethora of "Guide to GitLab alternatives" style-posts.

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