Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea

[jdaviescoates]

@yusf said in Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea:

It was fun while it lasted.

?

All this post seems to say is they are incorporating a company in order to be able to sell support to big corporates to help cover the costs of maintenance.

Seems likely to make it last longer imho.

[nebulon]

I also read it more like a explanation that the donation model didn't work towards a sustainable long-term development, where with the new strategy they can collect money from larger organizations to keep the project funded. I think it is positive and sheds some light on how donation models with good intentions rarely work.

[timconsidine]

@nebulon said in Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea:

donation models with good intentions rarely work

Sad but true. At least at scale.
Even in the age where crowdfunding has taken off.

I walked the Camino (de Santiago), and there are quite a few donativo based refreshment stops. Many take and don't give anything.

Similar concept is pay what it's worth : https://paywhatitsworth.com/
Great concept but the majority abuse it.

[yusf]

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it but to me the communication from this newly formed entity smelled strongly of complete vc capture, and crypto vc at that, assuming the number one sponser got something to do with it (INB).

[yusf]

Community response: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

[jdaviescoates]

@yusf thanks, I'd missed the important detail about who owns the trademark etc

[benborges]

It seems there is now a fork of Gitea here : https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo

[yusf]

Codeberg just announced support for Forgejo. It’s a soft fork and a drop-in replacement for Gitea. Let’s switch to a fork with a future.

https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

[jdaviescoates]

@yusf said in Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea:

Codeberg just announced support for Forgejo. It’s a soft fork and a drop-in replacement for Forgejo. Let’s switch to a fork with a future.

https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

drop-in replacement for Gitea?

[yusf]

@jdaviescoates sorry yes ofc

[yusf]

First Forgejo release is out.

[jaschaezra]

@yusf how would the other to switch look like?

[fbartels]

@jaschaezra there recently was a topic of someone building a custom forgejo app https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8312/moving-from-packaged-app-to-custom?_=1673347978007