New post: Migrating my repositories to Forgejo

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+* DONE Migrating my repositories to Forgejo  :english:selfhost:free_software:
+CLOSED: [2024-02-24 Sat 23:51]
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+After some thought, I decided to migrate my repositories to [[https://forgejo.org][Forgejo]].
+I know, I know...  The name sucks a little bit, but nothing is
+perfect.  Forgejo is a fork of [[https://gitea.com][Gitea]], and was created after [[https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/][some drama]]
+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 [[https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook][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 [[https://sr.ht][Sourcehut]] (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
+
+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 [[https://woodpecker-ci.org/][Woodpecker CI]], 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
+
+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.
+
 * DONE Using WireGuard to host services at home :english:howto:selfhost:wireguard:debian:
 CLOSED: [2023-05-23 Tue 00:56]
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