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Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by tomxor »

jrop wrote: post #3
adjusted wrote: post #2

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

https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-th... 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

I don't have any problem with them selling support and hosting.

I do have a problem with "An enhanced enterprise version", because this often means arbitrarily locking features behind that enterprise version and working against the interests of the open source code base. What happens in reality is probably more down to the immediate maintainers... however with bad incentives it's just a matter of time.

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by joencott »

tiagod wrote: post #8
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.

The open letter gives all the details you need to know https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

Re: Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

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Post by ofrzeta »

joencott wrote: post #10
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

It's the first time I hear of Woodpecker https://woodpecker-ci.org/ And I thought I knew the CI/CD ecosystem fairly well. Now I learned that it's a fork of Drone https://www.drone.io/ Oh, the irony.
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