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Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

161 mentions on Hacker News by 132 people: 18 stories, 143 comments · first 2016-12-27 · latest 2026-09-10

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  1. …and abandoning other things, since they weren't likely to ever get a Phab->Gitea importer anyways. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by tylersmith · 2023-02-07 · in Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea
  2. …hosting on Github for traffic reasons but for feature completeness. Relevant issue is here[0]. [0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by stryan · 2023-02-07 · in Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea
  3. ▲ 1
    Gitea2Gitea Federation State
    story by doener · 2022-11-06 · 0 comments
  4. Gitea will support federation soon https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/18240
    comment by tandav · 2022-11-06 · in Explore some of the finest open-source software out there
  5. …symlimk, and logs; or with HTTP webhooks. - "Feature: Allow interacting with tickets via email" https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/2386#issuecomment-6... - It's not safe to host Gitea on the same server as the CI (e.g. DroneCI) host…
    comment by westurner · 2022-10-30 · in A Message from Lunny on Gitea Ltd. and the Gitea Project
  6. …BDFL (benevolent dictator for life) of the project but rather that there is democratic ownership. > https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... Clearly that's not the case. Communities can be mostly fine with a BDFL…
    comment by marcinzm · 2022-10-30 · in A Message from Lunny on Gitea Ltd. and the Gitea Project
  7. …based on voting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33373254 Which is STILL in the repo's README: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#...
    comment by remram · 2022-10-30 · in A Message from Lunny on Gitea Ltd. and the Gitea Project
  8. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... The current holder of the domains and trademarks was elected as the custodian for a limited time (through the end of 2022). The terms of that election included an agreement to…
    comment by nybble41 · 2022-10-29 · in Open letter to Gitea
  9. …is converting issue and pull request metadata from the GitHub archive which they reference here: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18165 The migration bundles all of that up so I assume the holdup is writing something that can covert…
    comment by bastardoperator · 2022-10-29 · in Open letter to Gitea
  10. …with essential assets such as the domains and the trademark. They had a clear moral bound (see https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... ) to pass on the ownership of the project to their successor. But they thought…
    comment by dachary · 2022-10-28 · in Open letter to Gitea
  11. …However, that's the term the gitea project uses. I should've linked to the maintainers list: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/MAINTAINERS
    comment by kdumont · 2022-10-28 · in Open letter to Gitea
  12. …have the facts you ask for, at the bottom of the page. And with links within the text. They are: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-th...
    comment by dachary · 2022-10-28 · in Open letter to Gitea
  13. …the demands are: > Implementing an intuitive and fair election process. I think we do that now: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... Anyone who has contributed to the gitea project more than 2x PRs is invited to…
    comment by kdumont · 2022-10-28 · in Open letter to Gitea
  14. …WE WOULD LOVE HELP & FEEDBACK FROM FOLKS WHO HAVE MAINTAINED SIMILAR PROJECTS SUCCESSFULLY [0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/graphs/contributors
    comment by kdumont · 2022-10-28 · in Open letter to Gitea
  15. A bit of context (why this matters) is useful: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... > Since Gitea is a pure community organization without any company support, to keep the development healthy we will elect three…
    comment by TAForObvReasons · 2022-10-28 · in Open letter to Gitea
  16. …match usernames to real names but I don't see overlap between the top contributors and signatories. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulse
    comment by tinalumfoil · 2022-10-28 · in Open letter to Gitea
  17. …implemented issue deletation a few months ago. Actually,data gravity is the issue, not features. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18165 needs to be merged to be able to leave Github.
    comment by vanous · 2022-10-22 · in GitLab 15.5
  18. …that not all features needed are ready. They e.g. implemented issue deletation a few months ago. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by kenniskrag · 2022-10-22 · in GitLab 15.5
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    Gitea still blocking recent SSH clients
    story by slow_typist · 2022-10-17 · 1 comment
  20. …could even use recent ssh clients if you leave gitea, which is written in go, out of the equation: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/17798
    comment by slow_typist · 2022-10-17 · in Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe
  21. Codeberg source https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/gitea Codeberg is a fork of Gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea which curiously uses GitHub for hosting.
    comment by TAForObvReasons · 2022-10-17 · in Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe
  22. …https://gitea.com/gitea/tea/src/branch/main/README.md ) Edit: IIUC, Gitea doesn't support this yet. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/13508 (Side note: it's odd to me that Gitea hosts its source code on GitHub.)
    comment by electromech · 2022-09-26 · in Ask HN: Do any Git servers support patch sets (i.e., contrib without forks)?
  23. Citation needed. They host their source on GitHub [1]. [1]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by paraph1n · 2022-08-01 · in Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
  24. So looks like this is the one outstanding item: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/18165
    comment by 3np · 2022-08-01 · in Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
  25. It's in the FAQ in the readme, which links to this issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029 Basically... They're working on it
    comment by orkj · 2022-08-01 · in Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
  26. …changes, but what the fuck happens with all the breakages? Reserving usernames and such. Also https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/17688 "I want to use a regex to filter for valid mail addresses" "There is a function for that why not use…
    comment by BlackLotus89 · 2022-08-01 · in Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
  27. …Unfortunately, it doesn't seem very easy to do w/o running a CI task or something like that. [0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/302
    comment by jszymborski · 2022-07-19 · in Tell HN: My new free note taking tool
  28. It's getting close to be hosted by gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by systemz · 2022-06-30 · in Give up GitHub: The time has come
  29. > IMO it kinda speaks loudly that Gitea's development happens on github ! There's a bug for that: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by RunningDroid · 2022-06-30 · in Give up GitHub: The time has come
  30. …so they can create their own fork here, it's a non-starter for many. edit: here is Gitea's issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/18240
    comment by remram · 2022-06-30 · in Give up GitHub: The time has come
  31. …the support in core Git is somewhat useless. 0: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/794 1: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/13794
    comment by evil-olive · 2022-06-23 · in Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
  32. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/368baf9e77606e5de8bbc... Here's a good sample file. The cyclomatic complexity is through the roof: note the variable assignments, function calls, string concatenation, large number of `if`/`else if`s,…
    comment by ironmagma · 2022-06-05 · in Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
  33. …implement a feature to import content from Github. Here is an issue tracking the migration: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
    comment by tylersmith · 2022-06-05 · in Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
  34. It appears as if the main repo along with issue tracking and pull requests is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea - At least it looks that way, are issues/pull requests mirrored across to GitHub? I have to admit, if the…
    comment by klik99 · 2022-06-05 · in Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
  35. It supports Discord webhooks[0]. [0]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/services/webhook...
    comment by sli · 2022-06-05 · in Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service
  36. …doing it. Eg - Gitolite / Gittea. Trademarks are only so good as long as they are enforced. [0] - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4175
    comment by vhanda · 2022-06-01 · in Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
  37. ▲ 1
    A case study in bikeshedding: 3 months of discussion to add a /healthz to Gitea
    story by throwaway02392 · 2022-05-03 · 0 comments
  38. …collaboration and repo syncing, Gitea (which they're built on) is getting federation in place https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/18240 https://forgefriends.org/
    comment by 3np · 2022-03-25 · in ReVanced
  39. It seems there's a tracking issue here, but it seems stalled: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612
    comment by dbrgn · 2022-03-23 · in GitHub incident 2022-03-23
  40. I tried to look at the Gitea repo to see how fast they get commits, but github is 500ing :-( https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by freedomben · 2022-03-22 · in GitHub Incident
  41. …the easiest choice of using github or gitlab rather than self hosting their own system [1]. [1] - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by LinuxBender · 2021-11-16 · in Hackerrank DMCA Notice
  42. …How about https://fedeproxy.eu and federate between arbitrary forges? Gitea might be federated soon https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/16518
    comment by rapnie · 2021-09-09 · in FOSS Front-Ends and Alternatives for Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube
  43. …for federating Gitea [1] using ForgeFed [2] and ActivityPub protocols. [0] https://fedeproxy.eu [1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/16518 [2] https://forgefed.peers.community
    comment by rapnie · 2021-09-02 · in Opendesktop.org – Libre Cloud Services
  44. …forked by the Gitea project, which is largely compatible with it but is also in active development: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea Oh and there's also GitBucket which also attempts something similar to these:…
    comment by KronisLV · 2021-08-11 · in GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
  45. ▲ 3
    Gitea Grant application for the implementation of federation
    story by tempodox · 2021-07-24 · 0 comments
  46. ▲ 6
    5000€ bounty to implement forgefed federation for Gitea
    story by southerntofu · 2021-07-14 · 1 comment
  47. …it and seems to be ignoring security reports. I would probably recommend the gitea fork instead. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by ColdHeat · 2021-04-18 · in GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is apparently a problem
  48. ▲ 2
    Gitea 1.4 Released
    story by ekianjo · 2021-04-14 · 0 comments
  49. …queue of projects, but we're actually working on the mirroring system and front-end tests. See: - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/15268 - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/14726 - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/15315 -…
    comment by kdumont · 2021-04-07 · in Kallithea – Self-hosted alternative to GitHub
  50. …not too wild or radically different from any other Go web project and easy to change as necessary: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2021-04-06 · in Kallithea – Self-hosted alternative to GitHub