“Software Forge” doesn’t readily describe its purpose to me.
The community has been taken over by a bunch of weirdos that refuse to click things and read
I’ll admit I didn’t click or read. But am I incorrect to expect some information on what I will assume is the landing page in the image?
“Forge” is literally what softwares like GitHub, GitLab, or Forgejo is called. From Wikipedia
“In FOSS development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications.”
Is this when they break drop-in compatibility with Gitea?
That would mean they would have to do actual development instead of just scraping off stickers, so I’m not holding my breath.
Forgejo is a reactionary fork of Gitea, started because the creator of Gitea founded a company to maintain it.
a decision was made in early 2024 to become a hard fork
Is there a time line for full Federation?
“Long term support” is 15 months?
Is this a fucking joke?
I’m working with an OS with a 26-year support window.
LTS is 10 years. Support the one that RH/Rocky toss into the next release. Anything less than 8 years requires air-quotes around the ‘L’.
It’s about 5 times longer than previous releases were maintained for, and is an experiment. If there’s a need for a longer term support branch, there will be one. It’s pointless to start maintaining an 5+ year branch with 0 users and a handful of volunteers, none of whom are paid for doing the maintenance.
So yes, in that context, 15 months is long.
