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I like #Forgejo more than #Gitea.
#FreeSoftware #development #Git #forge #meme #doge

It's a Doge meme (Buff Doge vs Crying Cheems).

Gitea is the sad crying dog (Crying Cheems):
* Devs use GitHub to make Gitea
* Proprietary toolchain: GitHub, Crowdin, Discord
* Open Core
* "Start Your 30-Day Free Trial" (Gitea Cloud)
* "Open-source" (except for Gitea Cloud)
* No mention of Forgejo
* No large Gitea instances in the wild

Forgejo is the strong doge (Buff Doge):
* Devs use Forgejo to make Forgejo
* Free software toolchain: Forgejo, Weblate, Matrix
* Was born as response to hostile takeover
* "we are looking forward for your contribution"
* "exclusively Free Software" (and it's true)
* explicitly criticizes Gitea
* Runs codeberg.org (>46k repos, >96k users)

Like 29 February at 14:56 | Open on cyberplace.social

26 comments

𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬

@Wuzzy Also don't forget to mention that the for-profit organization owning Gitea decided that all non-Gitea copyright headers in all "new" files have to be removed in order for being merged. (We all know what this leads to!)

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/c7dcb58b1d96970959a5c8ac8d3955e4b7d027df/CONTRIBUTING.md#copyright

29 February at 15:02 | Open on gts.0x7be.net

🎼 b e a r d

@Wuzzy >using 4 usb drives and google drive

1 March at 12:36 | Open on gameliberty.club

Lynne

@Wuzzy Meanwhile, at gitlab: "We're making an AI chatbot!"

1 March at 12:38 | Open on pars.ee

Nyovella

@Wuzzy Oooh, forgejo sounds like hella based software then, i lvoe

1 March at 12:52 | Open on akko.wtf

Zergling_man

@Wuzzy I will keep this in mind, if gitea ever causes me too much of a headache I will replace it.

1 March at 14:18 | Open on sacred.harpy.faith

Shell :fedora: :kde:

@Wuzzy @Codeberg

2 March at 18:23 | Open on social.linux.pizza

-/mondstern

@Wuzzy

I translate @forgejo into #slovenian 😊

2 March at 18:28 | Open on mastodon.green

-/mondstern

@Wuzzy https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/forgejo/forgejo/sl/

I have already made it to 533 strings

3 March at 20:43 | Open on mastodon.green

Scott Williams 🐧

@Wuzzy I agree. I maintained a number of Gitea environments for years in production and migrated other systems over to it in enterprise settings. I migrated them all to Forgejo last year without a single regret.

2 March at 18:33 | Open on mastodon.online

beamchan

@Wuzzy Federation is quite a resource heavy process. That's a big put off for me

2 March at 18:47 | Open on pleroma.yuyutsu.one

owzim

@Wuzzy wut? And here I thought @Codeberg was using gitea under the hood. #til

2 March at 18:54 | Open on mastodon.social

anafabula

@owzim@mastodon.social @Wuzzy@cyberplace.social @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de They did, until Gitea was taken over by the Gitea Ltd for-profit at the end of 2022. Then Codeberg forked it as Forgejo.
https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

2 March at 23:31 | Open on social.anafabula.de

FPS DEV GUY

@owzim @Wuzzy @Codeberg they did use gitea under the hood, but now we all forge instead.

5 March at 12:25 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Thomas Frans 🇺🇦

@Wuzzy Forgejo and Codeberg are the best!

2 March at 19:19 | Open on fosstodon.org

wnm210

@Wuzzy
To be honest, Gitea Cloud isn't a bad idea. It's normal they want money as they kinda have to grow

@april

2 March at 20:32 | Open on mastodon.nove.team

n0toose

@Wuzzy just reposting so that people can see that I've been sent this 4 times before they do it again xD

2 March at 20:54 | Open on chaos.social

Ninmi

@Wuzzy ...what the hell happened to Gitea?

2 March at 20:57 | Open on raru.re

FPS DEV GUY

@Ninmi @Wuzzy this happened

https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

TLDR; some trademark shenanigans by a for profit company that now owned gitea. From then on, their for-profit agenda have made gitea into a gitlab-like "open-core" thingy instead of the open source mission that they should've had since the start.

Honestly, they should've relicensed the whole project as AGPLv3 (or something similar) to avoid anymore closed sourced troubles that might happen in the future.

5 March at 12:30 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Yulian Kuncheff

@Wuzzy and neither of them have batch import or mirror from Gitlab or GitHub.

I am not importing 100s of repos 1 by 1.

2 March at 21:15 | Open on hachyderm.io

Andrew Scott

@yulian

While true, doesn't Gitlab have an API you can leverage? It's not like you would literally be forced to click through every single one.

@Wuzzy

2 March at 21:51 | Open on fosstodon.org

Yulian Kuncheff

@ascott @Wuzzy sure, but lately I haven't had a whole lot of time to write scripts to automate it. Work, toddler, newborn, planning move to Europe. It doesn't leave time to write scripts for providers.

Plus I feel like with Forejo Integration could create a button press solution.

It's why I ended up choosing Gitness to do my backups and self-hosted repos. Has batch import. Was done in 2 mins

2 March at 23:59 | Open on hachyderm.io

Angad

@Wuzzy I know you can just replace the Docker image to use Forgejo, but will there be any long-term issues if I migrate that way?

2 March at 22:58 | Open on fosstodon.org

Andre_601 :blobfoxcofe:

@Wuzzy gitea works on moving the repo to their own instance.

3 March at 14:15 | Open on blobfox.coffee

abstractsun

@Wuzzy I tried running the Forgejo web frontend on my local machine and wasn't impressed, most notably because of the high baseline CPU usage. That said, the people at Codeberg do great work.