Gitea – A community-managed fork of Gogs

Re:Gitea – A community-managed fork of Gogs by sdesol on Sunday January 01, 2017 @07:25PM (#13298240)

I am not saying it is a golden goose. I am saying it has potential to be. If he wants to work at his own pace, then all the power to him but this path most likey wont lead to anything but a hobby project.

He can't expect others to not want to push for greater git mindshare. Gogs is licensed under mit and he has absolutely no say in how others want to evovle it. This is how permissive licenses work.

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Re:Gitea – A community-managed fork of Gogs by sangnoir on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:20AM (#13300037)

There's nothing wrong with being a hobby project - some of the best software is exactly that.

To expand on the goose metaphor, attempts to extract additional value from a goose that lays golden eggs oftentimes kills the goose: I'm sure a few years ago some VCs looked at CyanogenMod and saw loads of potential, but here we are.

It's perfectly fine for Gitea to evolve or even monetize via Gitea Inc, but it will continue to compete with Gogs if the maintainer wills.

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