What is Gogs?
Who uses Gogs?
Gogs Integrations
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Gogs in their tech stack.
I installed Gogs after a few repos I planned to use on GitHub disappeared without explanation, and after Microsoft's acquisition of same, it made me think about the over-centralization of community-developed software. A self-hosted solution that enables easy point-and-click mirroring of important repositories for my projects, both in-house and 3rd-party, ensures I won't be bitten by upstream catastrophes. (So far, Microsoft's stewardship has been fine, but always be prepared). It's also a very nice way to host one's own private repos before they're ready for prime-time on github.
Gogs is written in Go and is easy to install and configure, IMHO much more so than GitLab, though it's of course less feature-rich; the only major feature I wish Gogs had is an integrated code review tool, but the web plugin hypothes.is https://stackshare.io/hypothes-is/hypothes-is is quite suitable as a code review tool. Set up a group for each code review, and just highlight lines to add comments in pull request pages of Gogs.
Gogs's Features
- Activity timeline
- SSH/HTTP(S) protocol support
- SMTP/LDAP/reverse proxy authentication support
- Register/delete/rename account
- Create/migrate/mirror/delete/watch/rename/transfer public/private repository
- Repository viewer/release/issue tracker/webhooks
- Add/remove repository collaborators
- Gravatar and cache support
- Mail service(register, issue)
- Administration panel
- Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3
- Social account login(GitHub, Google, QQ, Weibo)