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Gitea 1.25.0 | 3D file previews, improved archive downloads, enhanced authentication, and more security, API and workflow upgrades like automatic repo forking and email notifications for actions (blog.gitea.com)
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[–] radieschen@slrpnk.net 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I can recommend Forgejo, it's not overly complex in my opinion. It is what I would call "simple git server + decent web UI" for a home lab or VPN.

The reason Forgejo was forked was because of Gitea's focus IIRC, maybe it was stuff like having 3D file previews. It's not even the worst feature though, I can imagine it's quite helpful in projects with a focus on 3D data.

Edit: Just had a look at the reasoning behind forking from Gitea:

We started Forgejo in reaction to control of Gitea being taken away from the community by the newly-formed for-profit company Gitea Ltd without prior community consultation, and after an Open Letter to the Gitea project owners remained unanswered. The Forgejo project has two major objectives that drive our development and road map:

  1. The community is in control, and ensures we develop to address community needs.
  2. We will help liberate software development from the shackles of proprietary tools.

https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/

Later they announced the hard fork, because

Simply put, the governance and development models of Gitea and Forgejo diverged over time, and so did their goals. Becoming a hard fork is the culmination of that divergence.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Forgejo also has significantly more active development. Feature-wise, I believe they're currently working on adding federation via ActivityPub as one of the main goals. I also think they have a much better designed and documented system for workers and actions at least at the time I went to spin one up. I switched to Forgejo and haven't really looked back.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm still getting familiar with the concept of federation. What would Forejo be able to do with federation if it's not primarily a communication platform?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The federation is mainly about issues / bug reports (the discussions and comments) and being able to make cross instance pull-requests and so on. So yes, it is mostly about communication.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, that's pretty cool!