Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub
by paulryanrogers on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:01PM
(#47942023)
GitLab cloud lost some of my projects. And it was (is?) quite slow. Props to those who can keep it running self hosted.
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub
by c-hendricks on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @08:53PM
(#47942880)
It's actually much faster when self hosted, even on modest hardware. And it's not _that_ bad to manage with docker (for how much it provides).
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub
by crimsonnoodle58 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:54AM
(#47944304)
It can be run as a single docker container, so it's actually very easy to self host. Occasionally it'll get into a 500 conniption and needs a restart, but you can create a healthcheck for that.
I kept a Docker install of GitLab running for many years at my first full time employer out of university back in 2014 to 2020. It was really not too difficult. Every once a while they would release a major version that required a migration or config update, but mostly the updates were a docker compose pull and docker compose up away. At our single company scale with only some 25 developers max (don't remember exactly anymore) a self-hosted instance on a moderate VM was super stable and quite boring. And boring is often good. It might be that hosting GitLab for much bigger organizations is a different beast!
I remember that the first instance of their CI solution was a separate server/service that coordinated CI jobs on runners. That was a bit cumbersome. But then they integrated the CI coordination into the main server and you only needed to figure out the CI runner part.
Today I would likely have gone for Forgejo with runners for such a small company if I were to self-host. Less moving parts and smaller footprint.
Just moved our stuff from gitlab to forgejo. Gitlab is fine. Just too much stuff for a small org. And I hated the upgrades. And they kept adding things and none of those were what I wanted :) guess a different audience or something. very good to have some options though!
Seeing KDE and Gnome come together isn't exactly uncommon but it still warms my heart reading about it.
Unlike their fanbases, KDE and Gnome teams collaborate all the time
...until it comes to bikeshedding new standards
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub
by alphabeta3r56 on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:21AM
(#47973068)
Which features were moved? I would have thought required mandatory approvals would be the first ones to be moved.
Yup. At KDE we never seriously considered GitHub. We always built our own git infra, and eventually landed on GitLab, after banding together with Gnome and a (generous and forthcoming) GitLab to convince them to move everything we needed from the Enterprise Edition to the free software Community edition.
I think we've had exactly one multi-hour git outage in 16 years.