Gitea support

[hulto]

Hey!
I just started playing with Garm and I'm really enjoying it!
I'd like to use it with my gitea server as well as some GitHub repos.

Are there plans to add support for Gitea? If not is that something I can contribute?

[gabriel-samfira]

Hi @hulto!

As long as Gitea/Forgejo supports:

• ephemeral runners
• registration tokens/JIT runners
• can send webhooks with job runs so we can schedule runners to a pool
• Has a way to allow us to list compatible agent downloads for linux/windows/mac/etc

It should be possible. However, I think there is an inherent danger in trying to support 2 different forges in the same project, as they may deviate significantly in the future and it may become cumbersome or downright impossible to consolidate. It may be wise to attempt to rearchitect parts of GARM and split off the bits that deal with the interaction between GARM and the forge. Similar to how providers work. But that would be a huge undertaking.

In the short term, if gitea has the above mentioned features, an attempt could be made to support it, if you have the time. Up to this point the focus has been to support GitHub and GHES. So the code mostly revolves around that assumption. But I think some thin abstractions could make gitea fit.

My experience with gitea is limited, so I am not sure how much I could help, but if I can, I will. If you want to tackle this, I suggest creating a proof of concept, hacked with an axe, just to see if it's feasible. Something that won't take months of your time, just to find that we can't merge it.

If having the two forges coexist does not seem possible, another option would be to fork GARM, yank out github and replace it with gitea. The we can merge back if/when the architecture of GARM permits pluggable forges, as we could then separately maintain plugins for gitea, github, etc.

So, plenty of options 😊.