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already a defeated protocol

Once again, SVN is victorious.

I recently looked this up again and it looks like the person who started the federation work in Gitlab got a new job and isn't really working on it any more. So sadly this seems to be on hold as Gitlab the company is not themselves investing staff-hours into federation.

I want all that so bad

Gitlab is also thinking of going to federation.

I hope Gitlab has helped the contributor out in their work, last I heard it was just one person on it

Even a single security fuckup on the scale of GitLab's mistake earlier this year means I will not consider using their codebase.

Something like for-jay-yo.

From https://forgejo.org/faq/ :

Forgejo (pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/) is inspired by forĝejo, the Esperanto word for forge.

ngl I thought it was pronounced for-geh-joe until I had gone on their website, I was stunned for a few minutes when I found out

But whatever, who speaks Esperanto anyway? 😛

Actually, are these 2 forks of another, when?

Yes forgejo was forked from gitea in 2022. It was a soft fork at first, but became a hard fork earlier this year.

Full story here: https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/

Any more git bundles you should care about?

That's a pretty decent list, I actually can't remember many more, maybe I'd add Onedev, but I've been skeptical about it since it's gone more corporate, so idk.

Actually, are these 2 forks of another, when?

To be fair, the meme isn't exactly accurate, because the forking relationship is this:

Gogs
└ Gitea
    └ Forgejo

But the colors just fit too good not to use this meme, so there you go lol

Radicle maybe

uninformed comment

That's fine in and of itself, but, personally, I could never bring myself to use a forge which isn't fully featured and easy to use.

spoiler ~~(rant)~~ Sourcehut is just so counterintuitive to me and I shrug every time I see a project actually using it, I feel like many wouldn't even consider making contributions unless they were very motivated. To the average person, it just looks like an unwelcoming experience, especially for the email centric focus, like, why should I switch to another application just to open an issue? At least integrate it with the the web UI, like idk, make it a specialized email client for the platform, so I don't have to juggle multiple things.

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Don't get me wrong tho, it's the closest we have to the bare git workflow of the "before times" with a bit more accessibility on top, it's not bad, but in a way these new web forges have spoiled us devs into relying on cohesive web services which happen to have vendor lock-in, but that can change and it is slowly doing so :::

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edit: deleted for inaccurate info, don't consider my dumb rant O.o

I found it unfamiliar in the few times I saw it, but maybe it's worth giving a try

Gogs started it originally, but was forked into Gitea years ago and hasn't seen much development since.

Forgejo is a newer fork of Gitea after the IP rights to Gitea were (secretly) transferred to a for-profit company and some of the developers started to turn the project into a commercial open-core one.

Forgejo is a community owned fork of Gitea which is privately owned.

One day we can expect Gitea to pull the license for money as we see almost every private company do. Although I do hope they don't.

That's pretty sad

Green Forgejo is typing...

Is this official? It'd be strange if it were only hosted on a random cloud storage provider

Not yet, but they are the ones actively working on it, so it will likely arrive there first. Still a few months out though.