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hbbio | 3 months ago

Codeberg is a fork of Gitea, itself a fork of Gogs.

Both forks originated for "philosophical" reasons, not technical ones and Joe Chen (@unknwon on GH) deserves a lot of the merit for building a clean forge in Go mostly by himself.

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idoubtit|3 months ago

> Codeberg is a fork of Gitea, itself a fork of Gogs.

Codeberg is a website powered by Forgejo which is a fork of Gitea.

> Both forks originated for "philosophical" reasons, not technical ones

Gitea forked because one developer was the only owner of Gogs' repository and refused to share maintaining rights. The fork was more "practical" than "philosophical".

Forgejo forked when a leading developer secretly created a company with the trademark of Gitea and its logo. The fork was to gain back control over the assets of the project (name/trademark, logo, etc.).

elAhmo|3 months ago

Seems like a 'you either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain' type of behaviour, which is not uncommon to see in projects like these. Let's hope Codeberg doesn't end up in the same bucket.

GaryBluto|3 months ago

How long do you think until the inevitable community split into the Codeberg People's Front and the People's Front of Codeberg over some minor ideological disagreement?

rererereferred|3 months ago

Codeberg will use the forgejo fork that keeps being free, I guess.