Good to see forgejo making inroads as someone who also self-hosts it.
I'm a self hosting GoGogs / Gitea user for almost 10 years, I did follow the Gitea fork. However regarding the Forgejo fork: the main contributors stayed with Gitea. The ideologically forked Forgejo made some license changes and hard fork decisions that increased the maintenance burden even more, resulting in missing upstream features and decreased security. Forgejo is more busy managing ideals, than creating software.
But then a couple of years have passed, and I started to hear about Forgejo more often only very recently, so I was wondering, if maybe the original project actually had some downfall and questionable technical decisions since. I still haven't switched, and was wondering if I should do so. As far, as I've heard it's still basically a matter of running the different docker container with the same volume, and it should work seamlessly. So what's about this "hard fork" you are mentioning? Did it actually break compatibility?
Isn't it sensible for a European government to talk to a player that is being backed by European companies and has a cleaner approach to open source?
I'm not arguing, I'm asking what's the rationale here.
> resulting in missing upstream features and decreased security
I.e. it's a matter of technical superiority, which, to me, how the decisions should be made. Not by having friends in the community and all of us being Europeans and so on. (But, of course, I would be glad to hear more particular details/examples of Forgejo lagging behind.)
Security wise, Gitea was safer in this case.
Also note the SECURITY.md was deleted: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/277dd02e706b6e51..., there is a security https://forgejo.org/docs/next/contributor/discussions/#secur... but it's a bit harder to find.
The problem is, Forgejo changed the license (https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/pulls/24#issuecommen...) and ended up doing a hard fork (https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/#consequences-of...) which creates quite some maintenance burden. There used to be a (weekly) gitea chery-pick (e.g. https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls?state=closed&labe...) but the TODO section was getting ever larger, and it seems it stopped in July (week 26).
So they start missing stuff, e.g. features like https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/9552
Words matter, and this would've been a great opportunity to raise awareness to the problem of oppressive software. I think these days most people have an intuition that this is happening.
moelf•52m ago