Draft:Forgejo

• Comment: Note to AFC Reviewers: This draft is for a title that was previously an article, but was then cut down to a redirect. If this draft is accepted, the history should be preserved. Do not tag the redirect for G6. If you find that this draft should be accepted, and do not have the Page Mover privilege, please request assistance in moving the redirect to preserve the history. Reviewers should check the history and verify whether there was a consensus to cut the article down to a redirect, or whether the action was taken boldly without discussion. If there was a consensus for the cutdown, do not accept this draft without verifying that the draft improves the article or that consensus has changed. If in doubt, please discuss.There have been articles at Forgejo only briefly, that were cut down to redirects by their authors. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:54, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Forgejo (Esperanto pronunciation: [forˈd͡ʒe.jo] )^[2] is a software package designed for hosting a forge using the Git version control system to aid with software development. The package allows developers to use collaborative features like bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, kanban boards, issue tickets, and wikis with their projects.^[3] The package is designed to be self-hosted by developers, and a public instance is provided to try out the software, however forges that are hosted by organizations such as Codeberg are more commonly used. Forgejo can be hosted on all platforms that support the Go runtime, including macOS and Microsoft Windows, and packages are provided for various Linux distributions.^{[4] [5]}

Forgejo was initially created in December 2022^[6] as a fork of Gitea (itself a fork of Gogs, another forge package) after a newly created for-profit limited corporation founded by the owner of the project, Lunny Xiao, along with another contributor named Matti Ranna silently transferred Gitea's trademarks to the company and began to move towards an open-core model, with the company offering enterprise services for hosting forges using a specialized version of Gitea containing exclusive features.^{[7] [8]} Many Gitea contributors signed an open letter asking for the project's trademarks and domains to be placed under community management,^[9] but they were dissatisfied with the response from the company and eventually decided to fork the project in order to retain community control.^[8] Codeberg, one of the major forges using Gitea at the time, migrated to Forgejo and has become the de jure lead maintainers of the project.^{[10] [11]}

While initially being a soft fork (a fork that remains synchronized with its upstream counterpart), Forgejo eventually abandoned the practice and split from Gitea following version 1.21 in February 2024, as maintaining support with Gitea became more complex as new features and changes were implemented that were distinct or not present in Gitea, as well as to liberate software development from the shackles of proprietary tools.^{[12] [13]}

In August 2024 Forgejo moved from the MIT license to the copyleft GNU General Public License.^{[14] [15]} This does not involve a relicensing of the existing codebase, but rather reflects a community decision made a year earlier that Forgejo would begin to accept GPL-licensed contributions.^[16] As a result, the license of the overall package is now reflected to be covered under the GPL.

A future objective of Forgejo is to utilize the ActivityPub protocol (known for its usage in the fediverse) to federate forges via ForgeFed, an extension of the protocol that is designed to support the features that are most commonly used by forge software.^[17] The project has received funding from the NLnet organization for both the protocol extension and the implementation of ForgeFed into Forgejo.^{[18] [19]} An implementation of this standard in Forgejo has been estimated to become production-ready in 2025, while other forge packages such as GitLab have also begun work on implementing support for ForgeFed.^[20]

While Codeberg is known as the main forge host for Forgejo, the Fedora Linux project has also planned to adopt the software for their forge, moving away from the previous Pagure installation.^{[21] [22]}

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