I left GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo on a hardened NUC. The reason is digital sovereignty, not reliability outages. Here's the thinking and the architecture.
Yeah. The real challenge with leaving GitHub is the availability of free macOS and Windows build environments (if you’re in to that weird stuff 🧐).
Codeberg only has Linux runners (to my knowledge), but I spent the time to make my project cross-compile to macOS and it was well worth it to move my stuff off of shithub.
Its just a script that reaches out to my old mac mini that does the build in a VM. New VM each time. It was good enough for my purposes. The windows runner for Xamarin worked without issues in .net with windows runners. So just two physical boxes I would spin up on the fly. I thought it was more but that was it. I stopped using it a while back and just use linux for builds now since thats mostly my day job. I stopped doing other env work a bit ago.
I recall there was a way…
But its coming up blank. Im at work so ill try looking it up. It mifht be a custom thing i set up years ago…or just an old intel mac with tools setup.
This is the way. If you don’t care that much about CI/actions or already use a non-Github solution for that, it’s even easier.
Yeah. The real challenge with leaving GitHub is the availability of free macOS and Windows build environments (if you’re in to that weird stuff 🧐).
Codeberg only has Linux runners (to my knowledge), but I spent the time to make my project cross-compile to macOS and it was well worth it to move my stuff off of shithub.
With some effort woodpecker is available. But yeah i wws spoiled on semi free builds. And circle ci builds back in the day.
I build with woodpecker, but you still don’t get hosted macOS and windoesnt runners, do you?
OK I found out after I got home for lunch.
Its just a script that reaches out to my old mac mini that does the build in a VM. New VM each time. It was good enough for my purposes. The windows runner for Xamarin worked without issues in .net with windows runners. So just two physical boxes I would spin up on the fly. I thought it was more but that was it. I stopped using it a while back and just use linux for builds now since thats mostly my day job. I stopped doing other env work a bit ago.
Hope that helps!
don’t mac/ios runners require an actual mac/ios device ?
I don’t do apple stuff so i’m not sure.
I recall there was a way… But its coming up blank. Im at work so ill try looking it up. It mifht be a custom thing i set up years ago…or just an old intel mac with tools setup.