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> Codeberg is a fork of Gitea, itself a fork of Gogs. Codeberg is a website powered by Forgejo which is a fork of Gitea. > Both forks originated for "philosop
by idoubtit 10mo ago
> Codeberg is a fork of Gitea, itself a fork of Gogs.
Codeberg is a website powered by Forgejo which is a fork of Gitea.
> Both forks originated for "philosophical" reasons, not technical ones
Gitea forked because one developer was the only owner of Gogs' repository and refused to share maintaining rights. The fork was more "practical" than "philosophical".
Forgejo forked when a leading developer secretly created a company with the trademark of Gitea and its logo. The fork was to gain back control over the assets of the project (name/trademark, logo, etc.).
- elAhmo 10mo agoSeems like a 'you either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain' type of behaviour, which is not uncommon to see in projects like these. Let's hope Codeberg doesn't end up in the same bucket.
- p2detar 10mo agoThat's the reason I don't want to jump on the Codeberg bandwagon just yet, although I'm very interested into self-hosting Forgejo. I'd love to see something else though, a way to have repositories discoverable across all possible centralized or self-hosted services out there. What I actually do love about GitHub is that from time to time it manages to find for me some quite interesting projects and people to check out.
- juliangmp 10mo agoTo note, Codeberg is set up as an _eingetragener Verein_ and has the charitable status, so it's a non profit and the leadership must be elected by the members. KDE has a similar structure with KDE e.V.