For anyone that wants to have a place to collaborate and push some code into, I’ve enabled Gitea and Rocket.Chat as part of an effort to create a self-sustaining programming community.
Instead of hosting your code on GitHub, you can use our Gitea service to directly push code. Why use us over GitHub? Well, Microsoft won’t have access to your code, and you can create private repositories free of charge. I might also look into self-hosted CI/CD tools to have alongside Gitea to create a full pipeline so that you can deploy your code as well.
Rocket.Chat enables you to collaborate with others on projects and also functions as this instance’s chat service. With it, you can talk about Lemmy, kleptonix, or anything else. It’s sort of like a town square for everyone on the instance to chat and hang out.
In the spirit of transparency, everything is hosted on Docker and can be swapped out if you as the community find that you don’t like a particular service. I’ve decided on both of these to start, but can also expand our offerings.
I hope you find these tools useful as a playground, test environment, or even as your main repo.
Thanks.
Luis