diff --git a/content/posts/migrating-to-forgejo.md b/content/posts/migrating-to-forgejo.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..133de82 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/migrating-to-forgejo.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ ++++ +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 ++++ + +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.