Comment by hbbio
Codeberg is a fork of Gitea, itself a fork of Gogs.
Both forks originated for "philosophical" reasons, not technical ones and Joe Chen (@unknwon on GH) deserves a lot of the merit for building a clean forge in Go mostly by himself.
Codeberg is a fork of Gitea, itself a fork of Gogs.
Both forks originated for "philosophical" reasons, not technical ones and Joe Chen (@unknwon on GH) deserves a lot of the merit for building a clean forge in Go mostly by himself.
That'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.
Codeberg will use the forgejo fork that keeps being free, I guess.
> 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.).