I'm already there. I hope this brings new developers willing to improve Forgejo. I really want to see it get federated.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
56 points (100.0% liked)
codeberg
180 readers
3 users here now
Codeberg is a community-driven, non-profit software development platform operated by Codeberg e.V. and centered around Codeberg.org, a Gitea-based software forge.
founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
you can also donate or become a paying member
Be realistic. Filling out forms to get CI runners means no serious users will be attracted. They can just go to GitLab instead. And even then, a migration wouldn't be fully seamless.
Those are immediate show-stoppers before we get to contributor pool sizes and network effects.
My purist young self picked Gitorious over GitHub. I even vaguely remember the KDE presence there, so it was a trusted host with big(ish) betters on it. But it closed shop soon after, and that was a quick learned lesson.
I will be more intrigued by the first jj-native forge when it appears. I may even help alpha test it, as it may bring a breath of fresh air to the space, unless it's going to be AI buzz-filled. In that case to the ~~trash~~ blocklist it will go.
Filling out forms to get CI runners means no serious users will be attracted.
I think this will have opposite effect. Only serious users will be willing to fill out forms and casual users will be put off by the bureaucracy. I agree that it is a downside though. In a perfect world, there would be no forms to fill in.
The problem with CI is that the internet is full of not-nice people who will use free compute to mine crypto. Gitlab had problems with this abuse and requires credit card details.