Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters

But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.

Google's involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.

I feel this so much. We evaluated them at work, and while they did pretty much exactly what we wanted, we weren't willing to pay their fees.

*forgejo

SourceHut burns my eyes. Has Drew (or someone to whom he has delegated such things) announced a dark mode yet?

Forgejo?

It's ironic that your alternative for GitHub is hosted on GitHub. That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.

I just wish GitHub wasn’t part of MS anymore.

Too bad. Microsoft is using it as part of their extremely long term plan to control the software that developers use to do their jobs. VSCode is another front in that battle. Things are going slowly, but they're winning.

Something funded by the government but ran by a public org would be ideal.

"the government" which government?

I don't want software beholden to any state interests. I see donationware as the way to go; or if donations can't sustain server costs, donations for sustaining development, and then a public flagship instance which people can pay to use, or self-host for their own server costs.

Why the government? There are plenty of free git hosting services out there, take your pick. If gitlab goes away, move to gitea, forgejo, gitosis, etc.

The moment I realized that "SSH login" on hosted git forges like GitHub literally just means "there's a folder on a computer that you're connecting to over SSH" was crazy to me. I realized that there's no need to selfhost gitlab, gitea, forgejo. Just put a folder on user@host in the repos folder, then set the origin url to user@host:~/repos/myrepo

I think there may be some init commands needed before, like git init --bare or something

Yeah, I use personal git repos for most things. But, it's not as convenient if you want to collaborate on something, or if you want to access features like building docker images and having them put into a repo. There's definitely a need for a place for open-source and free software projects to live. And, I personally don't want them on a platform owned by Microsoft.