Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-source contributions

Re:Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-sour... by irskep on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:23AM (#41489406)

The title is sensationalized. I read the whole thread. Gitea doesn't seem to be "blocking" the PR. They aren't preventing it from going in a release. However, they did pull the in-progress PR into their private repo early, presumably in order to make more money. Not great, but not bad faith.

"Blocking" would suggest to me that the PR is rejected but still ends up in the closed-source codebase, which isn't the case at all.

@dang I flagged this because we're at risk of brigading a community over a nothingburger.

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Re:Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-sour... by ironmagma on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:08PM (#41489951)

Brigading? Well I definitely didn’t intend that, although I also don’t see anyone from here having commented on the thread so I don’t see how that is reality.

Stall may have been a better word, although this PR has been crawling along for over a year now, with little response from the maintainers. If something is neglected for long enough it’s topologically equivalent to blocking it.

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Re:Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-sour... by irskep on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:07PM (#41493009)

I did say "at risk of" - the front page of HN is a powerful place. :-) Looks like my fears did not come to pass.

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Re:Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-sour... by lolinder on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:27AM (#41489459)

> they did pull the in-progress PR into their private repo early, presumably in order to make more money. Not great, but not bad faith.

Is this fact, or just speculation? I read the start and the end (though not the 175 items in the middle), and all I see is a vague block by a maintainer and speculation that it's because they have a similar feature in enterprise.

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Re:Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-sour... by GingerMidas on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:29AM (#41489493)

Hypothetically, if they never finish reviewing the PR, isn't that the same as "blocking"? Ghosting is still considered a rejection and arguably a much worse one.

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Re:Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-sour... by TiredOfLife on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:59PM (#41491408)

>... but not bad faith

That is literally in bad faith.

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Re:Gitea blocks PR from community, charging $$ for open-sour... by techknowlogick on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @03:57PM (#41514832)

The in-progress PR was not pulled in, different code was written to log a small subset of events that this PR does. I commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41514547, but the PR is more fully fleshed-out and has more functionality, which hopefully can be merged.

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