“Software Forge” doesn’t readily describe its purpose to me.
It says on their main page… it’s basically self hosted GitHub.
The community has been taken over by a bunch of weirdos that refuse to click things and read
"Forge" is literally what softwares like GitHub, GitLab, or Forgejo is called. From Wikipedia
"In FOSS development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications."
Is there a time line for full Federation?
Best I can do is half Federation.... 2/3 if you pay in cash.
Codeberg is run off of donations, they have no service contract revenue. Nobody, much less a volunteer, wants to commit to a 5 or 10 year service plan like that, it's not sustainable for a small project from a non profit.
I am sure Gitea will be happy to provide you longer support if you pay them for it /s
It's about 5 times longer than previous releases were maintained for, and is an experiment. If there's a need for a longer term support branch, there will be one. It's pointless to start maintaining an 5+ year branch with 0 users and a handful of volunteers, none of whom are paid for doing the maintenance.
Is this when they break drop-in compatibility with Gitea?
Is there some drama I'm not aware of here?
https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/