This is from last month, but I haven’t seen any discussion of it. Seems like Forgejo is now a hard fork of Gitea, instead of being a soft fork like it was over the previous year.
The main reason I’m posting it now is this: “As such, if you were considering upgrading to Forgejo, we encourage you to do that sooner rather than later, because as the projects naturally diverge further, doing so will become ever harder. It will not happen overnight, it may not even happen soon, but eventually, Forgejo will stop being a drop-in replacement.”
So, why Forgejo over Gitea? I’ve been pretty happy with Gitea.
Because gitea is fully the victim of corporate capture. Any PRs that make gitea better in a way that would reduce the main corporate “sponsor” profit are rejected.
The company has a conflict of interest with the community and it shows. Forgejo is sponsored by a non profit open source cooperative.
Any examples of this? PRs that are good overall but not for corporate sponsor?
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/67
The biggest issue is they require your to give them your rights as they pertain to copyrights.
That means even if you submit MIT or GPL licensed code they can just instantly say “we relicense this code as proprietary” and there is nothing anyone can do.
They rejected a bunch of valid PRs. Including the one linked here because the author refused to assigned their copyrights to the Gitea corporation.
Interesting. Is there a migration path?
Right now Forgejo is a drop in replacement. This article is them announcing that Forgejo will eventually not be one.
afaik they are planning on adding federation support eventually, which would be really neat for collaboration
