Setting up Forgejo is not complicated, but of course this varies per person.
The 3D view is a nice gimmick, having a stable and secure VCS is more important to me.
But how can community fork possibly be on par with funded developers?
I don’t know a ton about Gitea, but I’ve recently starting looking for a simple git server + decent web UI
Gitea and Forgejo are the main recommended ones, but they both seem overly complex. (3D File previews?? Who needs that?)
Anyone using a Version Control system to do 3d design work, if I was smart I would be using this for the stuff I design to 3d print. But I’m not so I just have directories full of STL and 3MF files with occasionally somewhat descriptive names. Oh or 3d artists working on games, videos etc. People who are doing architectural design? Just people with other random interests? I suck at staying organised but I gave Forgejo a go and as long as you follow the getting started guide and keep it on an internal network its pretty straightforward to get started, complexity goes up if you are wanting to use it externally or in more co.plicated scenarios I believe.
Maybe you are interested in radicle
Radicle doesn’t support windows
me neither
I use Forgejo at work. We have set it up on a server and it quickly became our main VCS server. Forgejo just sounds complex, once you install it(really simple setup), it is just… Git. You create your repos, you push your commits, and do all the normal git stuff with it.
You can even enable Forgejo Actions and have built-in Github Actions like CI for your repos, and it works surprisingly well.
I can recommend Forgejo, it’s not overly complex in my opinion. It is what I would call “simple git server + decent web UI” for a home lab or VPN.
The reason Forgejo was forked was because of Gitea’s focus IIRC, maybe it was stuff like having 3D file previews. It’s not even the worst feature though, I can imagine it’s quite helpful in projects with a focus on 3D data.
Edit: Just had a look at the reasoning behind forking from Gitea:
We started Forgejo in reaction to control of Gitea being taken away from the community by the newly-formed for-profit company Gitea Ltd without prior community consultation, and after an Open Letter to the Gitea project owners remained unanswered. The Forgejo project has two major objectives that drive our development and road map:
- The community is in control, and ensures we develop to address community needs.
- We will help liberate software development from the shackles of proprietary tools.
https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/
Later they announced the hard fork, because
Simply put, the governance and development models of Gitea and Forgejo diverged over time, and so did their goals. Becoming a hard fork is the culmination of that divergence.
Forgejo also has significantly more active development. Feature-wise, I believe they’re currently working on adding federation via ActivityPub as one of the main goals. I also think they have a much better designed and documented system for workers and actions at least at the time I went to spin one up. I switched to Forgejo and haven’t really looked back.
