Gitorious Apocalypse: plan to switch to self-hosted Kallithea for copyleft.org

[Aaron Wolf]

For reference, while I agree about the value of self-hosting in general,
I want everyone to be aware of the replacement host options that are
being developed. At the very least, knowing these exist is not a bad thing.

https://notabug.org/ is being run by some FSF-member type folks strictly
for free projects. It uses the permissively-licensed Gogs system, but
they've stated that they would do an AGPL fork if they ever have the
need to make substantial changes. Gogs seems a promising system.

https://gitbull.org/ is a new Kallithea host run by, I think Spanish,
free software folks who intend to hand off some control over the site to
FSF affiliate or something, i.e. make certain there's a legal entity
dedicated to software freedom that has final say about the service.

Cheers,
Aaron

On 03/16/2015 11:11 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> As many have seen and I need not link discussion to, I think, Gitorious
> will disappear on 2015-05-31.  I'll need to transition copyleft.org to
> something else by then.
> 
> My plan is to set up a Kallithea instance on copyleft.org as a
> replacement.  I'm scheduling that work for sometime in early May, I
> suspect.  If anyone would like to help, please let me know.
> 
> I am, BTW, simply not going to go with some other hosting service.
> Someone [0] pointed out that "no hosting service is too big to fail":
> Google Code and Gitorious both disappeared in the last two weeks.
> 
> I think self-hosting is the only option for now.  There is talk of
> some work on federated project hosting services, and I will follow those
> and copyleft.org may participate, but I suspect those will be long-term
> solutions, not a short-term solution for the Gitorious Apocalypse.
>