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Migrate from GitLab (or GitHub) to Gogs Server

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
elixir, git, github, gitlab
Domain
devops, tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the linked blog post and the referenced dwyl/gogs issue to establish the intended migration scope. No files, tests, or entry points are named; done would require an agreed migration path and clear acceptance criteria for moving from GitHub or GitLab to a Gogs server.

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Description

enhancement

This looks like relevant reading: https://blog.rh-flow.de/2016/11/20/gogs-instead-of-gitlab/
(found while debugging: https://github.com/dwyl/gogs/issues/9 ... keeping here to re-read later!)

Dominant language
Elixir
Stars
33
Forks
3
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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