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% Libreboot Git repositories now on Codeberg (RIP Notabug)
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% Leah Rowe
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% 8 April 2023
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RIP Notabug
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Git repositories provided by Libreboot are still available via Notabug, but
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the Notabug site has been quite unreliable for some time now. I notice it
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mostly in the evenings, when more people are likely using it. Essentially, the
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service is overloaded all the time and this results in regular HTTP 500 errors,
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causing pull requests, git clone, issue reports and other things to go
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offline at random times.
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I kept Libreboot on Notabug for as long as possible, because I hoped that the
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admin (single) would fix issues, but I can't keep waiting.
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Libreboot was originally a member of the Peers Community, which hosts Notabug.
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So I had an affinity for Notabug.
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Libreboot repos now hosted by Codeberg
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I've decided to set up an account on Codeberg. You can find it here:
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* <https://codeberg.org/libreboot>
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On this day, 8 April 2023, the following repositories are available via
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Codeberg:
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* Build system: <https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk>
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* Website (markdown files): <https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbwww>
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* Images (av.libreboot.org): <https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbwww-img>
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The `ich9utils` repository is now part of lbmk,
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under `util/ich9utils`, so the ich9utils repository was not
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needed on Codeberg (it still exists on Notabug). I'll add bucts
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to Libreboot's lbmk repo too (under `util/bucts/`).
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Codeberg has nicer features
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Codeberg runs on forgejo, itself a fork of Gitea, which *itself* is a fork
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of Gogs. *Notabug* runs on an older, modified version of Gogs, which lacks a
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lot of nicer features like issue search.
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Codeberg's forgejo instance has issue search, and it has a nice CI built in,
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namely *woodpecker*. All of this and more could be useful to Libreboot, and
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is being looked into.
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The interface is virtually identical to that of Notabug, since it's based
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upon the same original codebase. Links on libreboot.org have been updated.
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You can send issue reports and pull requests in much the same way as before,
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but you will need to make a new account on codeberg.org if you don't already
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have one.
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Notabug still available
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The notabug repositories are *still* available, and I'll still push new code
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to them. I push to several repositories, not just codeberg/notabug, but those
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are the ones that I openly advertise.
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Notabug is *usually* available, but it is often overloaded in the evenings,
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so it's no longer viable for production use, but it's still viable as a backup.
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If codeberg is ever down, at least you'd be able to download from Notabug.
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Why not self-host?
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Forgejo, based on Gitea, is what runs on Codeberg. They host the project, on
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behalf of the developers. Forgejo is working on federating the git forge, so
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that mastodon-like features are available (pull requests, issues and such).
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Until federated collaboration is possible in Git (via the web), it's simply
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not viable for a small project like Libreboot to provide a self-hosted
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instance, because it would mean that people have to make an account on the
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site *just* for Libreboot. This seems unreasonable as a request. Lots of
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people are on codeberg, and already have accounts.
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Codeberg is run by a non-profit organisation that seems pretty solid, with
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donations infrastructure too, so they'll probably always have the resources
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to manage the service effectively.
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When federation becomes available, I assume Codeberg's forgejo instance will
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become part of that, so it just makes practical sense for Libreboot to
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use Codeberg.
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Why not sourcehut?
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I considered sourcehut. I like the concept of it (mailing lists made easier,
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email-based collaboration) but I don't think most people will want to use that.
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Forgejo provides a web-based interface in a style that most people are used to.
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Libreboot is *not* hosted on sourcehut, officially, in any capacity.
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That is all.
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