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re my commentary nine months ago: I thought Gitea was fairly safe, as they were not requiring a CLA. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680587 https://news

by vetrom 2y ago

re my commentary nine months ago: I thought Gitea was fairly safe, as they were not requiring a CLA. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39680587) They still seem to only require a DCO, so I don't think they're gearing up for a commercialization rugpull... yet? Some of the forgejo devs apparently believe that a collective copyright header is the same thing as a copyright assignment: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/27455 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/27455 & https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/67 https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/67 I disagree on that point personally, but is there precedent here anywhere in the world? Now that forgejo is not hard-tracking the gitea source, maybe we'll see in a year or two which project has better technical velocity or whatnot. IMO it's a coin toss between the two at this juncture.

fngjdflmdflg 2y ago
>I don't think they're gearing up for a commercialization rugpull... yet? What would even be the point of a closed source github clone? Why would anyone chose Gitea of github in that case?
- doubled112 2y ago
  GitLab is only open core, and people choose it.
- vetrom 2y ago
  youll find plenty of reasons and justifications in the wider world of industries software engineering touches. Look at butbucket, microsoft (sourcesafe and then they bought out all of github), perforce, rational, bitkeeper, etc. All it really takes is some investor pressure or a bright idea that they could chase some large enterprise sales money, and then youll see more optimizations in that direction. Sometimes they're useful, like in cases where theres features that are important and even critical for medium-large enterprise usecases, but most people find boring to develop for. The risk comes, IMO, if you dilute the core product value while chasing those objectives.
mappu 2y ago
You can check the technical velocity already, and it's extremely in Gitea's favour,

by vetrom 2y ago

fngjdflmdflg 2y ago

>I don't think they're gearing up for a commercialization rugpull... yet? What would even be the point of a closed source github clone? Why would anyone chose Gitea of github in that case?

doubled112 2y ago
GitLab is only open core, and people choose it.
vetrom 2y ago
youll find plenty of reasons and justifications in the wider world of industries software engineering touches. Look at butbucket, microsoft (sourcesafe and then they bought out all of github), perforce, rational, bitkeeper, etc. All it really takes is some investor pressure or a bright idea that they could chase some large enterprise sales money, and then youll see more optimizations in that direction. Sometimes they're useful, like in cases where theres features that are important and even critical for medium-large enterprise usecases, but most people find boring to develop for. The risk comes, IMO, if you dilute the core product value while chasing those objectives.

mappu 2y ago

You can check the technical velocity already, and it's extremely in Gitea's favour,