Where's best to host the #OpenSource tools I've developed for Mastodon?

#GitHub is centralised & some people have ethical issues with it.

#GitLab doesn't have as many users, and is still centralised.

I don't have the skill / time / patience to run my own #Gitea or anything similar.

Thoughts?

@Edent That's a pity, I encourage using Gitea as it's so simple to start and maintain. Especially on Kubernetes. There are also plenty of service hosting that proposes pre-installed Gitea.
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@metal3d @Edent Not used to seeing "simple" and "Kubernetes" in the same sentence.

@timbray @Edent "helm install foobar reponame/gitea". It's simple in my point of view.

@metal3d @timbray how do I install Helm on my PHP host using cPanel?

@Edent @timbray ?? Helm is a command line...

@metal3d @timbray EXACTLY!

I said that I didn't have the skill to do that. I don't know why you didn't believe me. But here we are.

@Edent @timbray you have the skill to use PHP, push on git, probably pay a managed server... Excuse me but I thought that you had enough of knowledge to type one command. (Non-agression, I really thought this, and excuse my English)

@metal3d @Edent Hey, I'm reasonably technically skilled but haven't yet learned K8s. It is complex. Helm is “just a comand line” but so is git.

Not saying K8s is not good or not useful.

But I would prefer to avoid learning it in order to stand up a Mastodon instance.

@timbray @Edent the question was to install (or not) gitea. I only said that he can buy a simple hosted K8S (no management at all to do), and use the three commands here:
https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/gitea/gitea

I never said to make something more.

And there is some providers where you don't need to type a command. You click on the gitea app in a catalog and it install the application on the kubernetes plateform.

@metal3d @Edent Hmm, OK, that's an interesting idea: That you can run an app in production on K8s without having to understand K8s.

Having worked with teams running nontrivial Web apps on K8s, this is a bit surprising to me, but I’m not going to say you’re wrong. Just that it's a new idea.

@metal3d @Edent There’s also the question of whether the advantages of K8s are important for a small friends-and-family Mastodon instance, but that's another matter.