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Forgejo

165 points| rubenv | 3 years ago |forgejo.org

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[+] cmjs|3 years ago|reply
Fediverse announcement: https://floss.social/@forgejo/109519186453892972

> We're excited to announce the official launch of the #Forgejo project, a community-driven fork of #Gitea under the stewardship of @Codeberg. Check out https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/ to learn more, including the motivation for the fork, as well as Codeberg's announcement at https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html Come and get involved at https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo or in our Matrix room https://matrix.to/#/#forgejo-chat:matrix.org . We aim to be a fully inclusive community and everyone's participation is welcomed.

[+] moritonal|3 years ago|reply
To summarise "The Forgejo project is a community-driven free software project that aims to provide a code forge platform similar to GitHub and to be a drop-in replacement for Gitea."
[+] cmeacham98|3 years ago|reply
As someone who hasn't been following this: what's the split look like between Forgejo and Gitea for where the contributors are going?

Is is mostly going to Forgejo (other than Gitea Inc employees obviously), mostly staying with Gitea, a mix?

[+] silverwind|3 years ago|reply
As a contributor, I will keep watching both and go wherever there seems to be more traction. I don't really care about the ongoing politics.
[+] jolheiser|3 years ago|reply
As a quick bias note, I am a Gitea maintainer, but a majority of frequent maintainers appear to be staying with Gitea so far.

That being said, Forgejo is a soft fork, so they will still benefit from those contributions.

[+] maxloh|3 years ago|reply
Looking at the repo, seems like it doesn't receive many commits within the past week beside documentation improvements.
[+] thanzex|3 years ago|reply
seems like a promising project! I'll definitely give this a spin, however, I landed on the page and I wasn't immediately sure about what i had in front of me, same goes for the github page.

If this is a software meant for developing with powerful collaboration tools, where is even just one screenshot of what it looks like? I don't want to sound like a tiktok kid that only cares about form over function, but there's absolutely nothing visual ( or written for that matter ) to illustrate this project.

Do I really have to pull the image, execute it and find out about the looks, features, and how to configure it? No introductory video? No Docs? Heck, not even a screenshot of the main page

[+] jolheiser|3 years ago|reply
You can go look at the demo/site for Gitea if you want.

At the time of writing the interface will be identical.

[+] europeanguy|3 years ago|reply
What is gitea? Is it a Foss and self-hosted GitHub?
[+] jraph|3 years ago|reply
pretty much. Very lightweight and easy to setup too.
[+] jonwest|3 years ago|reply
Forgive me here, but what’s the relationship between this to Gitea to Gogs? IIRC, Gogs was the original that was forked to become Gitea which has now been formed to become Forgejo? Or was it Gitea to Gogs?
[+] jolheiser|3 years ago|reply
Gogs -> Gitea -> Forgejo

Gitea is a hard-fork of Gogs, while Forgejo is (currently) a soft-fork of Gitea.

[+] ancapsfascists|3 years ago|reply
How do you pronounce this? Forge Joe? Forego? Forgeaux?
[+] xdennis|3 years ago|reply
/for'd͡ʒe.jo/

It's Esperanto. It's supposed to be written "forĝejo" (forĝi=to forge, -ej-=place, -o=noun). The letter ĝ (for the dʒ sound, like Dj in Django, or J in John) is supposed to be written as gx without diacritics. But I assume "forgxejo" would have confused non-Esperantists even more.

[+] joobus|3 years ago|reply
It is not a well-picked name.
[+] mym1990|3 years ago|reply
Something about a 'g' and a 'j' nearly side by side is really messing with my brain.
[+] zx8080|3 years ago|reply
Does any commit to forgejo benefit gitea ltd also? What about other way around (while gitea is still opensource - is it, btw?)

Or how does a soft fork work?

[+] jolheiser|3 years ago|reply
A soft fork means Forgejo will be periodically pulling from Gitea.

As far as I know they intend to upstream patches they make as well.

And yes, Gitea is still open source and MIT licensed.