This is not reality. Where is it going to be hosted? My house? No the internet is not good enough here
A cloud provider? Thats a third party.
My opinion
advantages of self hosting gitea
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Reduce dependency on microsoft. When i ask people why they use facebook/insta/twitter, they generally say “all my friends use it”… It creates a loop. Someone needs to break the loop!
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Leverage project boards and issue tracking to help collaborators
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Create a place for multiple projects beyond whonix/kicksecure to live.
disadvantages of self hosting
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Time. I would be willing to take this on, but it would take away other work i could do to help whonix. I dont know how much this matters though if it works and helps the project at large become more productive. If I can speed up work for 5 people, but slow myself down this is probably fine
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Money. Cloud servers arent free (nor are physical servers). I already pay $25 a month for our CI server and automated testing. I could ask Patrick for this money, but rather prefer to treat it as a donation for now. Once WATS is running I will collaborate getting a whonix owned server set up. But for now, this is an out of pocket expense. Regardless who pays it, a collaborator or the project itself, it still costs money.
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potential reputational loss if a hack occurs. I am not a terrible sysadmin by any means, but I am a human and much more specialized on infra automation as my day job. Security is something I have learned a good bit, but could still spend a lifetime and not know it all. I could make a mistake, a hack would be embarrassing to the project.