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Codeberg launches Forgejo – Gitea fork

by rubenv on 12/16/22, 7:06 AM with 67 comments

• by ricardobeat on 12/16/22, 11:20 AM

  Background story seems to be that a portion of Gitea maintainers formed a for-profit company, and transferred all the trademarks to it, going against former promises made, and blowing up their own community as a consequence. They go over the now-traditional "companies are using our free software without paying us" discourse here: https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-th...

  > we’re planning on establishing a fund to be able to provide support to contributors who not only contribute features, but also bug fixes, performance enhancements, and important refactors.

  Sounds like any other for-profit company building commercial software. What stopped them from doing that while keeping the original OSS software copyrights intact?

  Also curious to see their plan to pay out all the developers working on the OSS that underpins Gitea itself. The list is pretty long.

• by rapnie on 12/16/22, 10:21 AM

  It is great that Codeberg has taken custody of the Forgejo project, and will use it for their own services. Not only is Forgejo using exclusively FOSS tools now, maybe the additional services that Codeberg offers, like Codeberg Pages, Codeberg CI (based on Woodpecker, FOSS Drone.io alternative) and Translations (based on Weblate) will become very easy integrations to any Forgejo installation.

• by shp0ngle on 12/16/22, 10:54 AM

  Well gitea itself is a fork of a different project, because of some other founder drama (that I forgot honestly). So it’s fine.

• by pwdisswordfish0 on 12/16/22, 11:24 AM

  It took a long time, but GitHub has finally (thankfully) shipped privacy settings that allow you to disable the way it broadcasts/publicizes your every move on your profile page. Does Codeberg or Gitea allow this yet? (They really should have been the first to do so...)

  It would be nice to also disable the public listing of repositories for your profile page and to control it for organizations, too. (Not talking about private repos. Instead: these should be ordinary repos that remain accessible to anyone who has the link, but they are simply not aggregated into a single unified list that's available to anyone who clicks over to the "Repositories" tab. Think of them like unlisted YouTube videos, except they are all unlisted by default, rather than having to specifically designate each one as being unlisted—although that would work, too, it's just not the way it should be implemented.)

• by smcl on 12/16/22, 11:03 AM

  For anyone else who, like me, couldn't decide which pronunciation it was the FAQ says "(pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/)". I don't know IPA so I can't tell if that j in ".jo" is like "joker" or like the french "jambon" or if it's soft like "yo"

• by Kinrany on 12/16/22, 8:25 PM

  > Take back control

  Oh jeez, will every marketing copy repeat this phrase forever now?

• by aliqot on 12/16/22, 2:44 PM

  Change the name.

• by nektro on 12/16/22, 9:18 PM

  thinking i'm going to forgo this

• by alrs on 12/16/22, 1:34 PM

  As an occasional gitea contributor: irc > matrix