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Add to SafariWhen comparing Gerrit vs Codeberg, the Slant community recommends Codeberg for most people. In the question“What are the best Git web interfaces?” Codeberg is ranked 6th while Gerrit is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Codeberg is:
Fully open source, no subscription plans. Every available feature is provided for free and every new feature with each update will be free as well, forever.
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Pros
Pro Authorizations for users and groups
Gerrit supports group and user authorizations for various repositories. Only authorized users can push code to the master branch.
Pro Integration with LDAP, bug-tracking tools, CI, etc.
Full integration with LDAP (users, groups), bug-tracking systems (Jira, Bugzilla), CI (Jenkins, Hudson) and other tools.
Pro Configurable project workflow, not always feature branches are the most suitable workflow
Pro Project policy customization can be done with hooks and plugins
Multiple hooks available on various events. Plugin API for more customization of project behavior.
Pro Self-contained installation of Java package, simple upgrades
Most upgrades require only download of new war file and running it in init mode. In some rare cases db reindex is required.
Pro Web UI extension with plugins
A number of plugins available for web UI extension. Plugin API for more customization.
Pro Open source
Fully open source, no subscription plans. Every available feature is provided for free and every new feature with each update will be free as well, forever.
Pro Intuitive user interface
Easy to mess around and feels very natural in general.
Pro Managed by a non-profit organization
Codeberg is community driven and managed by a non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany. The servers are also managed by them. In conclusion, your privacy and source code is protected!
Pro Lightweight
Codeberg uses Gitea as its Git software so it's extremely lightweight. Especially compared to Gitlab or Github.
Cons
Con The UI is very cluttered
Gerrit's user interface is very cluttered and messy, and quite ugly to look at. The navigations is also not very intuitive, which may hold some people off.
Con Difficult to customize
Fixing the UI/UX problems with CSS customization is nearly impossible. The markup doesn't include many classes, making it difficult to target CSS rules to specific elements of the interface.
