Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea • Hacker News Board

Yeah looks like they are selling support, which I have no problem with. I actually recently set up Gitea and Drone together and it is a match made in heaven. I don't have a problem if open source developers try to monetize their work. I will likely try to do the same with a few projects in the future, lol

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by TheBrokenRail » Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 4:45 AM UTC

While the seeming lack of communication from the Gitea owners (see the Gitea open letter) is a bit worrying, it does seem a bit premature to fork and potentially fragment the community before they've actually done anything.

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by notpushkin » Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 4:48 AM UTC

See also: Open letter to Gitea, https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33372471 – 28 days ago (134 comments)

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by gtaylor » Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 4:52 AM UTC

TheBrokenRail wrote: post #4

While the seeming lack of communication from the Gitea owners (see the Gitea open letter) is a bit worrying, it does seem a bit premature to fork and potentially fragment the community before they've actually done anything.

Gitea itself was forked off of Gogs.

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by yewenjie » Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 4:54 AM UTC

Just letting people know Gitea is already a fork of Gogs. So there are going to be three similar but parallel projects all sharing some history?

https://github.com/gogs/gogs

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by tiagod » Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 4:54 AM UTC

adjusted wrote: post #2

Is Gitea a for-profit project? What's wrong with that?

I remember some disagreements about control of key domains and infrastructure between the OSS maintainers and the nonprofit/company mamagement.

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by josephcsible » Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 4:59 AM UTC

TheBrokenRail wrote: post #4

While the seeming lack of communication from the Gitea owners (see the Gitea open letter) is a bit worrying, it does seem a bit premature to fork and potentially fragment the community before they've actually done anything.

Gitea said they were going to make "An enhanced enterprise version" (i.e., a proprietary version). That's bad enough to warrant a fork in my book.

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by joencott » Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 5:09 AM UTC

TheBrokenRail wrote: post #4

While the seeming lack of communication from the Gitea owners (see the Gitea open letter) is a bit worrying, it does seem a bit premature to fork and potentially fragment the community before they've actually done anything.

Today the for-profit company released a code dump for the implementation of an integrated CI/CD server. This was worked on in secret for months by multiple people with no say from the community. Gitea should work with Woodpecker for closer integration, not build one by itself. There is no incentive for the company to support alternative CI/CD