Moving the git hosting for the r-b website

[Marcus Hoffmann]

Hi Mattia,

On 11/19/25 09:40, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Hello RB folks,
> 
> 
> During the last day of the Summit, a small Working Group was set up to
> handle the move of the canonical location of the
> https://reproducible-builds.org website (currently on salsa.debian.org)
> to somewhere else.
> 
> The goals of the move are mainly:
>   * have an easier sign-up for new contributors (Salsa has restricted
>     registrations that can easily take up days, and it HAS been proven
>     detrimental for new contributors)
>   * have the website hosted on a more neutral place, since the
>     Reproducible Builds project nowadays is independent of Debian and
>     their internal processes
> 
> 
> 
> We picked Codeberg [0] as our repository hosting platform of choice:

Being somewhat affiliated with Codeberg: yay! :)

> 
> Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting
> and other services for free and open source projects, itself based on
> fully FOSS code (Forgejo, itself based on Gitea), which aligns perfectly
> with our broad FOSS values.
> It has all the features we need for our simple needs, including CI and
> (still under consideration) static web hosting.
> 
> It also includes a seamless import feature from other code forges,
> allowing to import the whole git history as well as merge requests and
> issues from salsa in a very straightforward way.
> We used this feature to import the webiste on
> https://codeberg.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website
> (temporary, will re-import!).
> 
> 
> For now, our current plan is only to move the git repository of the
> website.  We foresee this to be the starting to also move all the other
> git repositories that are not Debian-specific out of salsa.debian.org at
> a later date.
> 
> We are also currently evaluating potential options regarding the website
> building and publishing, in particular the "codeberg pages" feature
> (although it's advertised as being in "maintenance mode"). In the
> meantime, this part will stay on jenkins.debian.net.

There's currently a new pages implementation in beta-testing based on: 
https://grebedoc.dev/

I asked if there's already some public documentation on how to set this 
up on the codeberg.org hosted instance. I wouldn't recommend the 
existing pages infrastructure in the meantime, both for availability 
reasons as well as (very likely) requiring manual steps to migrate to 
the new one anyway.

Marcus