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Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
Forgejo v9.0 is the first version to be released under a copyleft license, after a year of discussions. Among the motivations for this change is the realization that a pattern emerged over the years, exemplified by Redis, CockroachDB, Terraform and many others. They turned proprietary because people chose their own financial gain over the interest of the general public. Forgejo admins no longer have to worry about this sword of Damocles: relicensing it as a proprietary software is not allowed.
The removal of the go-git backend is part of a larger effort to make Forgejo easier to maintain, more robust and even smaller than it already is (~100MB). When presented with go-git as an alternative to Git, a Forgejo admin may overlook that it has less features and a history of corrupting repositories. It would have been possible to work on documentation and new tests to ensure administrators do not run into these pitfalls, but the effort would have been out of proportion compared to the benefits it provides.
The Forgejo localization community was created early 2024 with the ambitious goal of gaining enough momentum to sustain a long term effort. A daunting task considering there are over 5,000 strings to translate, verify and improve. There has been many calls for help in the past and the community keeps growing steadily. Fortunately, the translation hackathon (translathon) organized by Codeberg in October was exceptional. It attracted an unprecedented number of participants who improved or created thousands of translations.
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Was this the git hosting service that wanted to have things like federated (in this case im talking about cross instance) cloning, searching and issue hosting?
I may be mistaken in general but iirc there was a hosting service like this that I found super interesting, especially in light of things like DMCA abuse against projects hosted on github and gitlab.
EDIT: seems like it is one of two, forgefed is a protocol it will use, activitypub one, very interesting.
Yes it is, federation work is ongoing. I think stars are in beta.
Is there a good summary of Gitea/Forgejo background somewhere?
Has anyone have personal experience moving off of gitea and using forgejo
I’d love to do this but it’s hard to find any written experiences yet.
Docker Gitea to Docker Forgejo was basically using a different image and pointing it to the existing database. Not sure if and when both will be different enough for that to no longer work. But I also only use it as a docker compose storage repository. No idea about automation etc.
Cool, I will spend time on it. From what I see, v24 is when gitea and forgejo went their own routes.
I don’t think I did more than spinning up the Forgejo container. Using the same db container and everything.
Cool, did you use the built-in CI CD before or after the migration. Any trouble there?
No CI CD, sorry. Just like @[email protected] I use it purely to store/archive
if i remember correctly, i just replaced gitea with forgejo for image: in my docker-compose, and it just worked
it was a couple of versions back, so i don’t know if that still works
I know they have the phonetic spelling of the word in the repo but I still don’t know how to pronounce forgejo
I don’t know how to read the phonetics but they’re going for forĝejo which is for-jey-o, so I’d imagine that’s how it’s pronounced.
I’m sorry, overlook corrupting repositories? If I’m going to be trusting pretty much everything I ever create to a platform it better be rock solid
I don’t know what a forge is and why not just use Git instead but good to see some more free software in our high seas.
yes bare git works just fine. if you ever want a web GUI and/or issues and Pull Request you want such a tool.
A web GUI can be very nice to share your repository publicly. You can also use codeberg.org if you can’t or don’t want to self host.
PS : I’m kinda shocked (not that much) by the downvotes or your legitimate and polite comment. Still looking for better communities/system.
Forgejo is a free/open source code hosting site like GitHub or Gitlab. It’s a fork of Gitea, over concerns with management and commercialization. You might know it from Codeberg, which is one of the largest managed instances, but it’s really easy to host your own.
So Codeberg uses Forjero? Then I like it already.
As far as I know, they maintain and development forgejo
It is based on Git. Imagine Github (Git server, issues tracker, pull requests and more) but open source and self-hosted. Gitlab can also do this but it has a lincencing model with non-free plans, Forgejo is fully open source.
Thank you for your explanation, miss.
The original announcement isn’t even very long. Could you not have read it before leaving this comment?
I indeed haven’t read the full announcement and I know comments like mine are annoying to some but it is what it is I guess.
Understandable, thanks for explaining what happened. I do dumb stuff like that too
It was new to me too, but a (code) forge is essentially a VCS server with stuff like a wiki and issue tracking. So think GitLab, GoGS/Gitea/Forgejo, BitBucket and all the others.
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