Comment by idoubtit

Comment by idoubtit 2 days 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 2 days ago

Seems 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.

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p2detar 2 days ago

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.

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- juliangmp 2 days ago
  
  To 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.
  
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