Forgejo v9.0 is available
forgejo.org

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.

  • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      You do realize git is federated right? That’s how it came about.

      As for Forgejo itself they are working on instance to instance federation. I think it is Activity pub based so theoretically it could be compatible with Lemmy.

  • DebianGuy@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • JASN_DE@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • DebianGuy@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        Cool, I will spend time on it. From what I see, v24 is when gitea and forgejo went their own routes.

    • bert@lemmy.monster
      7·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think I did more than spinning up the Forgejo container. Using the same db container and everything.

    • conrad82@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      if i remember correctly, i just replaced gitea with forgejo for image: in my docker-compose, and it just worked

      it was a couple of versions back, so i don’t know if that still works

  • killthefish@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I know they have the phonetic spelling of the word in the repo but I still don’t know how to pronounce forgejo

    • Dochyo@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know how to read the phonetics but they’re going for forĝejo which is for-jey-o, so I’d imagine that’s how it’s pronounced.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    85·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      19·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      It was new to me too, but a (code) forge is essentially a VCS server with stuff like a wiki and issue tracking. So think GitLab, GoGS/Gitea/Forgejo, BitBucket and all the others.

    • Kajika@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • OatPotato [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
      4·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      2 months ago

      Forgejo is like a self hosted GitHub. It expands beyond source control to include issue trackers, pull requests, wikis, publishing features and such.

    • dinckel@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      The original announcement isn’t even very long. Could you not have read it before leaving this comment?

      • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
        31·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • flubba86@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    How long does it take for the new features in Forgejo to appear in Codeberg? I suppose it’s possible they’re already there.

    Edit: Codeberg is still on v8.0.3-53, but code.forgejo.org is on v9.0.

    Edit2: Codeberg is now on 9.0 too.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 months ago

    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

    • TimeWalker@lemmy.foxden.party
      1·
      2 months ago

      To be fair, they supported two different git backends, one of them being go-git which was the one corrupting repositories. However, it was never enabled by default, you specifically had to build Forgejo with a specific tag to instead use that as the backend. If you just built normally or pulled ready-made containers or bins then it was always the default git backend.

  • YodaDaCoda@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Any idea how forgejo compares to radicle?

    I’m trying to decide what to install on my home server. I want something easy to start with but reasonably extensible and federated would be nice

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      forgejo is like github copy, and is a fork of the relatively known gitea. so far there are no federation features

      radicle is something similar, but as I understand, with distributed repo management. I don’t know the implications of this.

      radicle also has an own cryptocurrency, and is entangled with web3.
      while not all cryptocurrencies are scams, and probably the same applies to web3 projects, almost all of them are either scams, or useless for the purpose of using it as a currency. I don’t know how the radicle currency fares, but it made me distrust them somewhat when they started talking about that in their announcement channel, and the fact that since then the channel did not post much else did not help to gain back this trust

  • addie@feddit.uk
    0·
    2 months ago

    Ah, nice. Had been experimenting with using my Raspberry Pi 3B as my home Git server for all my personal projects - easy sync between my laptop and desktop, and another backup for the the stuff that I’d been working on.

    Tried running Gitea on it to start with, but it’s a bit too heavy for a device like that. Forgejo runs perfectly, and has almost exactly the same, “very Github inspired” interface. Time to run some updates…

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      It’s interesting that Forgejo ran better than Gitea considering it’s a fork.