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Gitea does not have every feature that Gogs has. Gitea has every feature that Gogs had at the point when they forked it, plus a few that they've ported over.

Gitea does not have every feature that Gogs has. Gitea has every feature that Gogs had at the point when they forked it, plus a few that they've ported over. But there are still features that have been in Gogs for over a year now that Gitea does not have. One example that burned me earlier this year, Gitea's backup/restore feature is still very underdeveloped. Gogs' backup/restore feature has been capable of backing up and switching databases for over a year, while Gitea still can only backup and restore to a database of the same type (e.g. Postgres to Postgres)

colemickens 8y ago
Is there any hopes of them un-forking? I haven't followed those communities, not sure where such discussions might be happening. Also, thanks for noting this. I had the mental perception that Gogs had really been fully surpassed by Gitea, and I need to re-evaluate now. Thanks.
- reificator 8y ago
  > Also, thanks for noting this. I had the mental perception that Gogs had really been fully surpassed by Gitea, and I need to re-evaluate now. You had that perception for good reason: it had surpassed GoGS. But they're both moderately active projects so it's good to revaluate regularly.
- mi100hael 8y ago
  > Is there any hopes of them un-forking? Doubtful. IIRC it was somewhat of a hostile & opportunistic fork. The Gogs maintainer went on vacation or something and didn't reply to issues for a couple weeks so someone forked to Gitea and declared themselves the new mainline only for the Gogs maintainer to return and not appreciate the attempted usurpation.
  - jhasse 8y ago
    I think it was more than a couple of weeks. Also before the fork the maintainer was asked multiple times to allow other contributors to become co-maintainer to reduce the bus factor.
    - aleksi 8y ago
      Sounds like Redmine / ChiliProject from a few years ago: https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Why_Fork https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Why_... ChiliProject is dead now, but Redmine continues to live on.

colemickens 8y ago

Is there any hopes of them un-forking? I haven't followed those communities, not sure where such discussions might be happening. Also, thanks for noting this. I had the mental perception that Gogs had really been fully surpassed by Gitea, and I need to re-evaluate now. Thanks.

reificator 8y ago
> Also, thanks for noting this. I had the mental perception that Gogs had really been fully surpassed by Gitea, and I need to re-evaluate now. You had that perception for good reason: it had surpassed GoGS. But they're both moderately active projects so it's good to revaluate regularly.
mi100hael 8y ago
> Is there any hopes of them un-forking? Doubtful. IIRC it was somewhat of a hostile & opportunistic fork. The Gogs maintainer went on vacation or something and didn't reply to issues for a couple weeks so someone forked to Gitea and declared themselves the new mainline only for the Gogs maintainer to return and not appreciate the attempted usurpation.
- jhasse 8y ago
  I think it was more than a couple of weeks. Also before the fork the maintainer was asked multiple times to allow other contributors to become co-maintainer to reduce the bus factor.
  - aleksi 8y ago
    Sounds like Redmine / ChiliProject from a few years ago: https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Why_Fork https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Why_... ChiliProject is dead now, but Redmine continues to live on.