More flash out of git article.

_drafts/bible-cross-reference.md

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+---
+title: "Draft"
+author: "James Pace"
+date: "2024/01/01"
+---

_drafts/self_hosted_git_summary.qmd

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 # Why I chose gitea?
 
+I currently use gitea for as my personal git forge.
+Gitea is an open source git forge that heavily borrows from Github's
+UI and feature set.
+Gitea is extremely light weight, with a number of people online running
+it on Raspberry Pi's.
+
+There are two reasons I chose to go with gitea.
+
+1. It is extremely light weight and easy to host.
+   I was able to get a test version running on my laptop in a container running very quickly.
+   Once I decided to fully move to it, setting it up on Kubernetes was farily straight forward.
+   I've not looked at its resource useage on my currenty cluster, but I know pre-Kubernetes
+   I ran it on a Vm with less than 1Gb of RAM.
+
+2. It has the best community support.
+   When looking at other tools that integrate with a git forge, I noticed
+   pretty much all of them natively have support for Github, most of them also
+   supported self hosted Gitlab, and if they support anything else without using
+   SSH directly, it's Gitea.
+
+With that being said, I did have some concerns initially and spent a lot of energy looking
+for better alternatives.
+Particularly:
+
+1. Looking at their public Github, I didn't get the feeling the project was very mature.
+   It's hard to put a finger on why I felt (and still feel) that, but there is something about
+   building something that is so unbashedly a clone that feels immature to me.
+2. The maintainers are mostly in China, which makes it challenging to ever push at work.
+   This may come off as Xenophobic, but in the national defense field, our customers sort of are
+   supposed to be distrustful of other countries, and their requirements flow down.
+
 ## Other Options
 
-### Gitlab
+### Gitlab Community Edition
+
+One of the options I really wanted to like was Gitlab, particularly their open source
+free edition.
+As I mentioned earlier, outside of Github, Gitlab has the best community support, and I know
+of a number of Open Source projects that aren't on Github that use it.
+
+Unfortuntely, Gitlab is fat, requiring an insane amount of RAM to just idle.
+I tried running it on my laptop in a VM with 4Gb of RAM, and with the system idling, and
+the only thing happening being me in the admin panel, browsing, the server kept getting OOM'd
+killed.
+Their docs say the minimum amount of RAM is 4Gb and they are not kidding.
 
 ### Onedev
 
+Onedev is an all in Git forge, largely produced by one guy.
+
+I really wanted to like Onedev, and ran it as my primary Git forge before
+my last install of Gitea.
+Unfortunately, there were just too many little UI bugs that added up so I
+couldn't really suggest anyone else use it at like work, and again its
+mostly developed by one guy.
+
+It ran great on a VM with very little RAM, though.
+
 ### Gerrit
 
 [^dev-stack-definition]: I'm going to use *development stack* in this article to refer to the combination