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As a casual self hoster with Gitea running exclusively to clone GitHub repos for archival purposes. Think Nintendo gaming adjacent and risking DMCA. Is there any reason for me to switch to forgejo while I have the chance?
As I understand it, forgejo came about when someone maneuvered to consolidate control of gitea. So I guess if you stay you may eventually become subject to various anti-user practices that non-open software tend to gravitate toward
They formed an llc to help get funding for the project and to hire maintainers and the like. They’ve also contracted with some other companies to add support for things like the security tab (from gh), azure support, etc that are currently only available on “enterprise” gitea because of contract reasons. Last I heard the goal was to get those contributed to the main oss gitea but it’s a bit of work to get done because lawyers