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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
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[–] flint@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

codeberg.org (which runs on Forgejo) offers a nice ci solution: Woodpecker.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's nice that they have this but the real problem is GitHub Actions is provided for free for all repos. Woodpecker looks like you need to self host. I'm not going to set up and pay for host just for the small amount of time I have working on one of my projects.

[–] flint@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're right, that it doesn't just work as conveniently out-of-the-box on Codeberg. However you do not have to self-host: You merely have to apply to get access to their hosted Woodpecker instance at ci.codeberg.org.

See docs here if you want to try it out: https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/

Onboarding requires a few manual steps, as to prevent the abuse of Codeberg's limited resources. You will need to request access by filling out this form. After submitting, a Codeberg volunteer will review your request and grant you access if your use case is appropriate.

Edit: added quote from docs

[–] Undaunted@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know how Woodpecker works, but I have a lot of experience with Gitlab runners. You can startup a runner locally, as it doesn't need to be publicly accessible from the internet. Only the Gitlab instance needs to be accessible for the runner, as the runner actively fetches new jobs from there and pushes the results again.

If Woodpecker works similarly, you could just deploy the runner locally while you're actively developing and your computer is running anyway, if you don't want to pay for a VPS.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

That's how it works that I can see. I run it and woodpecker just waits for an event like a push or whatever to your repo and then it runs the jobs.

As someone who runs gitlab as well I much prefer woodpecker CI to github/forgejo actions. Personal preference entirely though.