• troed
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    269 months ago

    Setup Gitness in 30 seconds

    Install with a single Docker command. Lightweight enough to run on a $4 Digital Ocean droplet.

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    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      I haven’t seen why to use docker until recently. It is easy and fast to run non trivial setup quickly on any Linux distribution or WSL.

      • @towerful
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        109 months ago

        Yeh, docker is sweet. Docker compose is even better.
        It’s great when you start dockerising things yourself, and stuff just works.

        A note, tho. Docker is a brand name. Open Container Initiative (or OCI) is the open source equivalent. Its mostly compatible (IE compatible until you get into the weeds). A lot of the tooling, you can just alias docker for whatever the tool is and it’s the same.

      • JackbyDev
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        49 months ago

        You really gotta try it to get it. You can read about the benefits all day but u til you have the aha moment it won’t be the same. So let me give an example. Some tools use some scripting languages you haven’t set up and you have to sit there and figure out how to get some build tool working you’ve never used for some language you e never used just to get some tool to do something that might fit your needs. But they also have a docker container. Do you can just docker run blah and zero set up.

      • kryllic
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        29 months ago

        I had similar thoughts in Docker, started using it for my media server, haven’t looked back since. It’s so efficient and simple, absolutely love it.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        Docker for example is used on the Kbin project. They’ve created a docker image that gets PHP, Posgres and all the other services needed to get up and running with the project.

        Without that image you’d have to manually get everything up and running and while I’m sure some people are comfortable jumping into a new project, having a single image that does most of the legwork means you can attract developers who just want to get started right now.

        This is super handy for UI/UX/Designers/concept focused people who need to get the project running locally quickly.

    • @starmanOP
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      139 months ago

      I don’t know, maybe it isn’t. But additional diversity won’t be bad, right?

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Yeah, of course. I just wanted to know if this one has any killer features or is just an alternative

    • Black616Angel
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      39 months ago

      Since they mainly developed a CI-system before, I guess that this would be less experimental then the forgejo/gitea one.

      • @sjpwarren
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        29 months ago

        I use Drone (bad name for googe searches) and I like it! Simple idea that just works.

  • @[email protected]
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    149 months ago

    Why is Gitness on the news and why is it being considered as the de-facto alternative to GitHub? Why is GitLab/SourceHut/Forgejo (and Codeberg)/Gitea not being considered?

    Forgejo for example has almost a 1:1 compatibility with GitHub Actions and it didn’t make the news. If you were to replace GitHub, Codeberg or Forgejo is a very good replacement for it.

    • JackbyDev
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      79 months ago

      Maybe just because it is new?

    • @starmanOP
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      119 months ago

      Yes, I was also surprised by this fact. But on the other hand, I wouldn’t find it if it wasn’t on GitHub

      • Oliver Lowe
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        19 months ago

        Maybe a silly question: how did you find it on GitHub? Did the project appear as some kind of “recommended” thing?

    • @sjpwarren
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      69 months ago

      I think this is more a marketing thing. Gitea is on GitHub too, so it can be found… 10 years ago it would have been on Sourceforge.

      • Dark Arc
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        59 months ago

        It’s been longer than that since sourceforge was popular 😅

  • @onlinepersona
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    79 months ago

    Maybe somebody could suggest they implement federation? Otherwise it’ll just be another bunch of disconnected islands each requiring contributors to go through the same setup procedure over and over again.

    • TechNom (nobody)
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      59 months ago

      Somebody did that on HN. They seemed receptive to it.

    • @starmanOP
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      49 months ago

      No problemo

  • z3r0
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    9 months ago

    My apologies if I’m saying something stupid, but I see that this is built on top of Drone, which stopped being Open Source several years ago. Does this means that Drone, as part of Gitness, has become Open Source again?

    • adduc
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      39 months ago

      With this release, drone is now apache-licensed. From what I’ve been able to find, the developers have been active in other discussions but avoided the topic of why they went open-source when drone wasn’t.

      A few developers that forked Drone into Woodpecker CI when it stopped being open-source are anticipating another “rug-pull” in a few years with Gitness. I’m a bit skeptical myself, but Harness does have other open-source projects and Drone’s decision to stop being open-source predates their acquisition.