After this year, we can say that Forgejo is probably the best thing that could happen to us. A friendly community, awesome support, and improved collaboration on important topics like Performance and Security are the key points for us.
There is not much difference from a technical side right now, but we think that the Forgejo project stands for trust and stability.
@rfc2549 At first I moved from Gitea to Forgejo because I wanted to be ready for forge federation and also because I don't want to promote Gitea's corp.
Yesterday, with Forgejo's critical security fix, I saw a new reason to use Forgejo: Gitea's security team stopped cooperating with Forgejo and gave no explanation for that. This behavior from Gitea is unprofessional and I am not confident on their ability to handle security issues.
@rfc2549 I switched all the stuff at work and hobby stuff I maintain to Forgejo from Gitea earlier this year. Forgejo is 100% open source and I frankly trust Codeberg more than the for-profit that took over Gitea.
Practically speaking, if you only care about core capabilities and features and aren't specifically invested in Drone or Woodpecker, then you probably won't notice a difference between them. Forgejo is a soft-fork, so it's the same motor under the hood of both.
@rfc2549 The context is important as Drone got relicensed and the for-profit that took over Gitea added proprietary integrations with it and was taking about extending it with blockchain/cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, Codeberg is a very reputable non-profit host for many open source projects and had long been a major Gitea contributor, so Forgejo also seemed the obviously more sane choice. I honestly think Forgejo's existence has probably contributed to Gitea not veering off to fringe territory.
@rfc2549 That said, I've maintained Forgejo/Gitea in my dayjob for years now. My last job, I implemented it to replace Bitbucket, and at my current job, I implemented it to move workloads that were previously on Github internally, in part to have an internal repo hub and in part because Gitea/Forgejo just legit do some things better (at the time, Projects was one of those things).
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