Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
Forgejo v9.0 is the first version to be released under a copyleft license, after a year of discussions. Among the motivations for this change is the realization that a pattern emerged over the years, exemplified by Redis, CockroachDB, Terraform and many others. They turned proprietary because people chose their own financial gain over the interest of the general public. Forgejo admins no longer have to worry about this sword of Damocles: relicensing it as a proprietary software is not allowed.
The removal of the go-git backend is part of a larger effort to make Forgejo easier to maintain, more robust and even smaller than it already is (~100MB). When presented with go-git as an alternative to Git, a Forgejo admin may overlook that it has less features and a history of corrupting repositories. It would have been possible to work on documentation and new tests to ensure administrators do not run into these pitfalls, but the effort would have been out of proportion compared to the benefits it provides.
The Forgejo localization community was created early 2024 with the ambitious goal of gaining enough momentum to sustain a long term effort. A daunting task considering there are over 5,000 strings to translate, verify and improve. There has been many calls for help in the past and the community keeps growing steadily. Fortunately, the translation hackathon (translathon) organized by Codeberg in October was exceptional. It attracted an unprecedented number of participants who improved or created thousands of translations.
I don’t know what a forge is and why not just use Git instead but good to see some more free software in our high seas.
The original announcement isn’t even very long. Could you not have read it before leaving this comment?
I indeed haven’t read the full announcement and I know comments like mine are annoying to some but it is what it is I guess.
Forgejo is a free/open source code hosting site like GitHub or Gitlab. It’s a fork of Gitea, over concerns with management and commercialization. You might know it from Codeberg, which is one of the largest managed instances, but it’s really easy to host your own.
It is based on Git. Imagine Github (Git server, issues tracker, pull requests and more) but open source and self-hosted. Gitlab can also do this but it has a lincencing model with non-free plans, Forgejo is fully open source.
yes bare git works just fine. if you ever want a web GUI and/or issues and Pull Request you want such a tool.
A web GUI can be very nice to share your repository publicly. You can also use codeberg.org if you can’t or don’t want to self host.
PS : I’m kinda shocked (not that much) by the downvotes or your legitimate and polite comment. Still looking for better communities/system.
Has anyone have personal experience moving off of gitea and using forgejo
I’d love to do this but it’s hard to find any written experiences yet.
;Edit: I will probably just try it
I don’t think I did more than spinning up the Forgejo container. Using the same db container and everything.
Cool, did you use the built-in CI CD before or after the migration. Any trouble there?
Docker Gitea to Docker Forgejo was basically using a different image and pointing it to the existing database. Not sure if and when both will be different enough for that to no longer work. But I also only use it as a docker compose storage repository. No idea about automation etc.
For me, it was literally as easy as (this is basically my upgrade process too):
`
systemctl stop gitea.service
cd /home/git/
wget https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/releases/download/v8.0.3/forgejo-8.0.3-linux-amd64
mv forgejo-* gitea
chmod +x gitea
systemctl start gitea.service
`
I did it soon after the “split up” though, but it was super easy since they were still basically the same applications.
Make backups, update the above to use your paths and the new download link you should be good to go. Mine is in a VM , so I was willing to just YOLO and give it a go since I could easily roll back.
sorry for the formatting. on my phone and did my best!
I know they have the phonetic spelling of the word in the repo but I still don’t know how to pronounce forgejo
I’m sorry, overlook corrupting repositories? If I’m going to be trusting pretty much everything I ever create to a platform it better be rock solid
The fact that was a thing in the first place scares me enough to not want to use it
Was this the git hosting service that wanted to have things like federated (in this case im talking about cross instance) cloning, searching and issue hosting?
I may be mistaken in general but iirc there was a hosting service like this that I found super interesting, especially in light of things like DMCA abuse against projects hosted on github and gitlab.
EDIT: seems like it is one of two, forgefed is a protocol it will use, activitypub one, very interesting.
