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Just started trying out Gogs. How come Gitea felt the need to fork it?

laurent123456 8y ago
Gitea seems more active as there's more people working on it: Gogs: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors Gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/graphs/contributors https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/graphs/contributors (switch from one tab to the next to see the difference)
nik736 8y ago
The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap or quality standards, he is also not the most responsive during times this is why some people created Gitea. I am still using Gogs personally.
- VikingCoder 8y ago
  > or quality standards You say that like it's a bad thing.
  - BeeOnRope 8y ago
    I don't read it that way. How do you get that impression?
    - VikingCoder 8y ago
      > The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap or quality standards, he is also not the most responsive during times this is why some people created Gitea. I am still using Gogs personally. Let's break it down: > The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap That generally sounds bad. Like, in an ideal world, you would be open to changing your roadmap. Specifically the timing, for sure. Also, you would be open to accommodating features you hadn't thought of, etc. So, this sounds like a negative, basically. > or quality standards, Starting with a negative, continuing with just an "or" makes it sound like you're about to list another negative. I'd expect a "but" or a "but thankfully," or something. > he is also not the most responsive during times this This is absolutely a negative. He doesn't bad thing, or xxx, he is also bad thing. Reading that sentence structure makes "xxx" sound like another bad thing.
      - nik736 8y ago
        You shouldn't try to interpret my words too much. I am not a native speaker.
  - nik736 8y ago
    No, I was stating that I use Gogs (because I actually like that philosophy), not sure what you are talking about.
ofrzeta 8y ago
At some point the to-become Gitea developers felt that there were too few (or too slow) pull requests merged into Gogs. So they forked the project.
boudin 8y ago
If i'm not mistaken, gogs is managed by one person. Twice in the past few years he stopped being active for a few months. The first time a bunch of contributors started a fork to continue working on it and be community driven rather than managed by one person. When the gogs author started being active again, the features from the fork ended up being implemented in gogs (the wiki and a few other stuff) so the fork was killed. The second time it happened the fork (gitea) was created again with no intent for it to be temporary this time.

Gitea seems more active as there's more people working on it: Gogs: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors Gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/graphs/contributors https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/graphs/contributors (switch from one tab to the next to see the difference)

nik736 8y ago

The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap or quality standards, he is also not the most responsive during times this is why some people created Gitea. I am still using Gogs personally.

VikingCoder 8y ago
> or quality standards You say that like it's a bad thing.
- BeeOnRope 8y ago
  I don't read it that way. How do you get that impression?
  - VikingCoder 8y ago
    > The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap or quality standards, he is also not the most responsive during times this is why some people created Gitea. I am still using Gogs personally. Let's break it down: > The owner of the Gogs repo doesn't accept pull requests that won't fit his roadmap That generally sounds bad. Like, in an ideal world, you would be open to changing your roadmap. Specifically the timing, for sure. Also, you would be open to accommodating features you hadn't thought of, etc. So, this sounds like a negative, basically. > or quality standards, Starting with a negative, continuing with just an "or" makes it sound like you're about to list another negative. I'd expect a "but" or a "but thankfully," or something. > he is also not the most responsive during times this This is absolutely a negative. He doesn't bad thing, or xxx, he is also bad thing. Reading that sentence structure makes "xxx" sound like another bad thing.
    - nik736 8y ago
      You shouldn't try to interpret my words too much. I am not a native speaker.
- nik736 8y ago
  No, I was stating that I use Gogs (because I actually like that philosophy), not sure what you are talking about.

ofrzeta 8y ago

At some point the to-become Gitea developers felt that there were too few (or too slow) pull requests merged into Gogs. So they forked the project.

boudin 8y ago

If i'm not mistaken, gogs is managed by one person. Twice in the past few years he stopped being active for a few months. The first time a bunch of contributors started a fork to continue working on it and be community driven rather than managed by one person. When the gogs author started being active again, the features from the fork ended up being implemented in gogs (the wiki and a few other stuff) so the fork was killed. The second time it happened the fork (gitea) was created again with no intent for it to be temporary this time.