FYI: GitLab is spyware

[Lyberta]

Well, they asked me to read their updated privacy policy:

Usage Data Information from Self-managed GitLab Instances

GitLab collects information about usage from each self-managed GitLab instance (Community Edition and Enterprise Edition) through a usage ping. The usage ping sends a payload containing data such as total number of projects and pipelines, as well as license information and hostname to GitLab. Only aggregates of usage data is sent: no project names or other content is sent to GitLab. You can view the exact payload of the usage ping in the administration panel in GitLab. Here you can also opt-out of the usage ping.

So, I'm never gonna use GitLab for personal projects anymore. Can anyone recommend an alternative?

[GunChleoc]

It would certainly be good if it was opt-in instead of opt-out.

[Lyberta]

Well, now I have nowhere to host my code.

[rubenwardy]

Or you could simply opt-out of the ping

[Lyberta]

I don't want to use the software written by developers who spit into my face. I can opt-out, but that will be just wiping spit and accepting it.

[Julius]

Its a company (and thus need to earn money somehow) and such usage data can be very useful for B2B marketing, which is what their core business is.

IMHO, opt out is a bit iffy, but if the admin of an instance doesn't even bother to go through all the settings to disable it, he/she will probably not care about the data send either.

Anyway, hosting your own Gitea is easy and simple. And for FOSS game related stuff you are welcome to move your code to our https://git.freegamedev.net instance. It's hobby run though so there might be some rough times and I currently don't have a good backup system in place... I guess I should mention that on the page :/

[Wuzzy]

What about https://repo.or.cz/?

[Lyberta]

Anyway, hosting your own Gitea is easy and simple.

Well, it's the only thing I've actually tried to install. When I specified TLS cert it just stopped starting, I got so frustrated that I did rm -rf / and lost my e-mail server and now I can't even delete the server instance in the control panel...

[Julius]

Heh, yeah trying to manage the TLS certificates for individual services can be a real pain. My recommendation is to put everything behind a reverse-proxy and do the TLS certificates at that level. Traefik.io works very nicely for that.

[Lyberta]

Heh, yeah trying to manage the TLS certificates for individual services can be a real pain. My recommendation is to put everything behind a reverse-proxy and do the TLS certificates at that level. Traefik.io works very nicely for that.

Nah, I just give up.