Gitea has a ton of issues, sadly. We self-hosted an instance where we had a number of mirrors and whatnot to have redundant copies of third-party dependencies. The server would deadlock, mirror tasks would time out and then couldn't be restarted, etc.

We filed an issue (or maybe two) and the developers were... eh. A bit rude, to be honest. Dismissive that it was really an issue, where restarting and deleting/re-configuring was a massive PITA.

Therefore, I can't really rec Gitea myself. I wish something like it existed though. That's for sure. Gitlab is just too bloated for my taste and our needs.

I've ran it for years and never had a deadlock. How big were your code bases, how many users?.. idk if that is even the reason why

Large, and the deadlock was only a few times but the stalled and unresumable mirrors were rampant.

We were mirroring the linux kernel and maybe 40-50 different repositories. Two users.

Could you link the issues please? Planning to use Gitea with a lot of mirrored repos.