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+title = "Migrating my repositories to Forgejo"
+author = ["Sergio Durigan Junior"]
+date = 2024-02-24T23:51:00-05:00
+tags = ["english", "selfhost", "free_software"]
+draft = false
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+After some thought, I decided to migrate my repositories to [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org).
+I know, I know...  The name sucks a little bit, but nothing is
+perfect.  Forgejo is a fork of [Gitea](https://gitea.com), and was created after [some drama](https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/)
+regarding Gitea Ltd taking over the development of the Gitea project.
+I have to be honest and say that I'm growing tired of seeing so much
+drama and confusion arise from Free Software communities and projects,
+but in a way this is just a reflection of what's happening with the
+world in general, and there's very little I can do about it.  Anyway.
+
+Deploying Forgejo was easy thanks to [mash-playbook](https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook), which is a project
+I've been using more and more to deploy my services.  I like how
+organized it is, and the maintainer is pretty responsive.  On top of
+that, learning more about Ansible had been on my TODO list for quite a
+while.
+
+All of this means that I decided to move _away_ from [Sourcehut](https://sr.ht) (I
+might use it as a mirror for my public repositories, though).  I did
+that because I wanted to self-host my git forge again (I've been doing
+that for more than a decade if you don't count my migration to
+Sourcehut last year).  Not liking some of Sourcehut's creator's
+opinions (and the way he puts them out there) may or may not have
+influenced my decision as well.
+
+
+## A Continuous Integration to rule them all {#a-continuous-integration-to-rule-them-all}
+
+Something that I immediately missed when I setup Forgejo was a CI.  I
+don't have that many uses for it, but when I was using Sourcehut I
+setup its build system to automatically publish this blog whenever a
+new commit was made to its git repository.  Fortunately,
+`mash-playbook` also supports deploying [Woodpecker CI](https://woodpecker-ci.org/), so after
+fiddling during a couple of days with the Forgejo ↔ Woodpecker
+integration, I managed to make it work just the way I wanted.
+
+
+## Next steps {#next-steps}
+
+Write more :-).  Really...  It's almost as if I like more to deploy
+things than to write on my blog!  Which is true, but at the same
+isn't.  I've always liked writing, but somehow I grew so conscious of
+what to publish on this blog that I'm finding myself avoiding doing it
+at all.  Maybe if I try to change the way I look at the blog I'll get
+motivated again.  We'll see.