Gitea is hosted on Github, ignored issue since 7 years (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[-] ThermoToaster@exng.meme 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s why you should use Forgejo

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. This is so hillarious.

How can you develop a Git forge and not host it on itself?

Whyy? Also how they locked the issue and always changed the goals on version further... and that was 7!!! Years ago!

[-] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It doesn't make sense, Forgejo just forked gitea and discarded all of the history (I.e.: issues and PR) previously included in gitea's github repository. Of course they could host it on their own platform, it was already functional and they could start from a blank state.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

TLDR: "lets make github. Wait, we can't afford that"

[-] Korbs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

At least Forgojo is hosted on Codeberg. Actually I believe that Forgejo is a Codeberg project.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, Gitea is a fork of Gog, and Forgejo is a fork of Gitea.

Gitea messed up their finance stuff, has a for profit company and did a lot of shady swaps without transparency.

Forgejo is sponsored by the nonprofit Codeberg [something] and is hosted on Codeberg.

[-] Korbs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ah yes that's it. Forgejo has been great on my server.

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

It doesn't really surprise me that a self hosted project cant afford to self host it's own self or be able to find a neutral hosting location.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I dont know how much it costs to host such a server, 10€ per month?

I mean if you dont even use your software for real work i.e. a big project, how do you test it?

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

The irony isn't lost on me but the comments show it wasn't that simple. If it was they surely would have done it.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

They are not the only ones. I've seen a few other alternative forges that haven't bothered dogfooding. It immediately lowers the trust in them. Does their shit really work if they have to host it on github?

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