[Koha-devel] Trouble for the Gitea project: forked to Forgejo

[David Cook]

Well that’s interesting.

 

Reading through the following links, you have to wonder what Gitea Ltd were really thinking…  

https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/

https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/a-message-from-lunny-on-gitea-ltd.-and-the-gitea-project/

 

I had forgotten that Gitea itself is a fork of another project called Gogs: https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/ 

 

Looks like the community wrote the “elected owners” an open letter about the switch: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/ 

 

Sounds like Forgejo would be more in the spirit of Koha, although https://forgejo.org/2023-01-31-monthly-update/ makes it seem like it might be wise to wait a bit until its infrastructure/processes stabilize a bit more before switching over…

 

 

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From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Druart
Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2023 2:32 AM
To: Victor Grousset/tuxayo <victor at tuxayo.net>
Cc: koha-devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Trouble for the Gitea project: forked to Forgejo

 

Some updates: https://forgejo.org/2023-01-31-monthly-update/

 

I think Victor's email is missing questions: what do we do?

If we decide to migrate to forgejo, when?

 

Le mer. 25 janv. 2023 à 03:45, Victor Grousset/tuxayo <victor at tuxayo.net <mailto:victor at tuxayo.net> > a écrit :

Hi :)

Thanks David Nind for sharing this info on the last dev meeting:

> Use of Gitea: We use Gitea for git.koha-community.org <http://git.koha-community.org> . Gitea was "forked" and is now Forgejo[1] - see the links update and related links[2] (sounds eerily familiar 8-(.. ). The community needs to look at what to do next, such as whether to continue to use Gitea, update to Forgejo, do something else.... (David Nind)
> [1] https://forgejo.org/
 > [2] https://forgejo.org/2022-12-26-monthly-update

Comments during the meeting:

> forgejo is the 'good' one?

> that's what it looks like ^^

> "After Gitea Ltd confirmed the takeover of the Gitea project on 30 October 2022, a group of people proposed that Codeberg e.V. should become the custodian of a fork of Gitea. The proposal was accepted 16 November 2022" - e.V. is a German thing actually

More details:

e. V. is the legal form for associations in Germany and Codeberg e. V. 
is known for their Gitea (well, now Forgejo) instance that became host 
to a decent number of libre projects in the last two years.
(likely they moved away from GitHub and not wanted the not libre GitLab 
instance at GitLab.com (open-core))


Trivia:
 > Forgejo (pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/ <http://e.jo/> ) is inspired by forĝejo, the 
Esperanto word for forge.

😃😃😃 I knew the name spelling looked familiar!


Cheers,

-- 
Victor Grousset/tuxayo
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