One of the signers of the Gitea Open Letter Fabio Manganiello runs the FOSS project Platypush, an automation platform with many integrations. In article demonstrating use cases CI/CD pipelines automation is described:
Set up self-hosted CI/CD git pipelines with Platypush
Even though abandoning closed-source and unreliable cloud development tools is probably the right thing to do, that leaves a hole behind: how do we bring the simplicity of the automation provided by those tools to our new home - and, preferably, in such a format that it can be hosted and moved anywhere?
(I pinged to @algernon with this, relating to Federated CI idea & seed)