Git Hosting

For the past 18 years I have been a GitHub user. It has been an extremely convenient platform for collaborating with many people from all over the world. What makes GitHub, and other platforms like it, particularly attractive is that they are typically way more accessible than any institutionally provided infrastructure (even if not without issues of its own). GitHub also provided an extremely reliable and stable infrastructure that encouraged and rewarded building on it....

This article is part three of a series on self-hosting Forgejo-aneksajo. If you have not read part one, and part two already, check them out. In many ways, this article is a direct continuation. If you are self-hosting a Forgejo instance already, it can make a lot of sense to also operate a runner for its actions. Forgejo’ actions will feel very familiar to anyone who has used Github’s actions. That being said, the Forgejo documentation clearly states that “they are not and will never be identical”....

In a previous article, I described my first steps with Forgejo-aneksajo, and deploying it on my Raspberry Pi. This got me so excited that I started looking into deploying it on more machines. However, I quickly realized that the Docker-based approach I had used originally was not going to yield a setup that I would see myself wanting to maintain for an extended period of time. I knew I wanted something that I could completely apt install from Debian, that is maintained there as a whole, and not pieced together from only loosely connected components....

If we are being honest, hosting DataLad datasets is not the most straightforward thing in the world. Sure, through the power of git-annex, and with the help of a range of DataLad extension packages they can be put pretty much anywhere. But the fact that it is possible does not imply simplicity. There used to be a time when GitLab supported git-annex repositories directly. But with the arrival of Git LFS it got removed....