The immediate concern: we are running out of hosting credits from Infomaniak, we can continue only a few months more maximum. But before I ask Infomaniak about continuing the hosting sponsorship by giving us more credit, I want to see if there is people really interested to continue maintaining the service.

When we started with this effort to have fully Free Software as a replacement to Github.com, there was only two good options we knew about - gitlab and gitorious. Gitlab had more features and it acquired gitorious later. Later we learned about pagure (which is not actively developed anymore I think). Now the momentum seems to be with Codeberg.org and ForgeJo. But still offering more options to the community is a good idea, though it needs a lot of sustained effort.

Initially Gitlab Inc sponsored both hosting and Debian packaging work, which was dropped after 6 years. Maintaining gitlab debian package is a huge effort and impossible to do with just volunteer time. So at present the Debian packaging work is stuck, so if someone wants to continue maintaining it, they'd need to migrate to a docker based or omnibus based gitlab setup or even migrate to forgejo.

So if you are willing to continue maintaining it, please speak up now. I want to retire from maintaining this service. The last straw was the recent announcement by Gitlab about moving to fully AI based development https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/05/12/gitlab-announces-layoffs-amid-major-ai-overhaul-480613/

Update: Looks like Infomaniak has refreshed out hosting credits - we have 8196 Euro credits. So this is now mainly about volunteers - hosting costs are already covered.

Next steps,

1. If we have volunteers, we will ask Infomaniak for sponsorship.

2. If we don't have volunteers, we will announce shutting down of the service

3. If we have volunteers, but Infomaniak don't extend sponsorship, we need to find other sponsors to continue.