Forge evaluation

[Marc Sunet]

Hello,

I have recently set up a Gitea instance and saw that it was in your list 
of candidates for the forge. I can help do some research on it if you 
need help. A few comments so far:

> Poor usability with no JS from site (gnu criteria A) [...] Would need 
to add that functionality in plain html when no js is run.

The thing seems to be heavily dependent on Vue.js and other JS packages, 
so I imagine this will be tough.

> Resource requirements / performance under load.

I have no run any load testing. It being written in Go instead of Python 
should generally scale better than Pagure, I think.

> How featureful are is are administration interface/tools (GUI or CLI).

What specifically do you want to see here?

> Tools to prevent abuse. User banning is possible from GUI.

By default, account creation does not have email verification, but the 
feature is supported. Just need to configure an MTA on the system to 
send the confirmation email and then modify Gitea's app.ini 
configuration file.

The server can also be made invite-only, but I don't know if that would 
be too restrictive for your use case.

I can look into banning and other tools.

> Ease of deployment, upgrading, debugging

I went the manual route. Installation is fairly straightforward. There 
is also a snap and docker container available. Not sure how that works 
in terms of Free Software requirements, though.

Upgrading seems to be a matter of either updating the binary or 
compiling the new source. The new binary will attempt database 
migrations when necessary. They suggest manually backing up the database 
first or configuring the system to snapshot the filesystem 
automatically. https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/upgrade-from-gitea/

> import/export of data

Do you mean like migrating the repositories but from a user's 
perspective? I have not tried this. Their Github issue on import/export 
is still open with no progress on it anyway. 
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1446

Thank you,

Marc

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