Re:Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
by colemickens on Sunday May 06, 2018 @05:39PM
(#17008718)
Is there any hopes of them un-forking? I haven't followed those communities, not sure where such discussions might be happening.
Also, thanks for noting this. I had the mental perception that Gogs had really been fully surpassed by Gitea, and I need to re-evaluate now. Thanks.
Re:Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
by mi100hael on Sunday May 06, 2018 @09:52PM
(#17009852)
> Is there any hopes of them un-forking?
Doubtful. IIRC it was somewhat of a hostile & opportunistic fork. The Gogs maintainer went on vacation or something and didn't reply to issues for a couple weeks so someone forked to Gitea and declared themselves the new mainline only for the Gogs maintainer to return and not appreciate the attempted usurpation.
Re:Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
by jhasse on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:23AM
(#17012952)
I think it was more than a couple of weeks. Also before the fork the maintainer was asked multiple times to allow other contributors to become co-maintainer to reduce the bus factor.
Re:Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
by aleksi on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:11AM
(#17013308)
Sounds like Redmine / ChiliProject from a few years ago: https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Why_... ChiliProject is dead now, but Redmine continues to live on.
Re:Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
by reificator on Sunday May 06, 2018 @06:01PM
(#17008829)
> Also, thanks for noting this. I had the mental perception that Gogs had really been fully surpassed by Gitea, and I need to re-evaluate now.
You had that perception for good reason: it had surpassed GoGS. But they're both moderately active projects so it's good to revaluate regularly.
Gitea has every feature that Gogs had at the point when they forked it, plus a few that they've ported over.
But there are still features that have been in Gogs for over a year now that Gitea does not have.
One example that burned me earlier this year, Gitea's backup/restore feature is still very underdeveloped. Gogs' backup/restore feature has been capable of backing up and switching databases for over a year, while Gitea still can only backup and restore to a database of the same type (e.g. Postgres to Postgres)