Option to limit external repository mirroring to only public projects on Gitea

[tockudex]

Feature Description

For hosting providers with limited server resources, the ability to disable the mirroring of external repositories to a private project on Gitea would be greatly beneficial.

Indeed, limiting the creation of a plethora of private and potentially massive mirrors allows the providers to avoid unnecessary traffic and storage usage.

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[eeyrjmr]

This is already possible. The default is enabled but you can set this in your app.ini and restart your instance

https://docs.gitea.com/administration/config-cheat-sheet#mirror-mirror

[tockudex]

Through an exchange with a maintainer of Forgejo (hard-fork of Gitea), I've been told that this feature is actually not implemented.

Apparently, you can either fully enable push/pull mirrors, or fully disable them...

[lunny]

It seems it's useful for some public Gitea instances. But in fact, once users could run Gitea Actions with cron jobs, they can do mirrors easily.