Is gogs dead?

A month of inactivity and an issue that is 12 days old, and someone is trying to fork the project under a new name?

Seems kind of fickle and impatient. Gogs is a great project, and that thread doesn't seem to imply that it's dead only on a brief hiatus. If development resumes will the new fork merge back in, or will it try to compete?

It's impatient only if it's a permanent fork. If they merge it in once he gets back, no harm done.

Not sure why it showed up here, though.

In my opinion, this isn't a fork, but a naked hijacking:

- No really consensus / official decision on the issue

- http://gitea.io/

- "Git with a cup of tea,"

When it's done so fast, it feels like a coup.

I understand the right to fork a project, but for a maintainer to be AFK from issues for a few weeks to necessitate a fork is harsh.

you never know... let it be, the perils of open sourcing your shit.

Really interesting how the people start to bitch around even if they don't know any background story. The two guys that created the fork of Gogs are cofounders of Gogs abd they have been in the organization for a long while...

Unknwon does some other stuff now and seems to not care about gogs anymore and as far as i know he's not willing to accept other contributors or people in the organization that gauns write access. So now there is the fork Gitea which gets lots of attention and already multiple bugfixes. The for months outstanding feature of pull requests will be done pretty soon as well. Ah, and I forgot to mention that the project title still shows that it's a gogs fork beside of some files that are still named gogs.

I forgot to mention that I'm one of the gitea maintainers now and that there is some other communication beside of the issues as well like gitter chat or email ;)

What's the problem with @Unknwon being in the states? Don't they have internet access there?

Sigh. I don't know, maybe he's on holiday and you're not entitled to demand a response from him?

He studies / works in the USA. He's chinese. He may be back home in China for vacation. Github + gmail is blocked by gfw

As they say, the creator is abroad, probably doesn't have much time to work on it. Far from dead, by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm even more skeptical of the fork's intentions given that the fork-er has never even contributed code to gogs [1].

[1] https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors

Where did you get this crap? @lunny and @fuxiaohei have created the fork and they are the admins. They are the main contributors to gogs with @Unknwon...

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