As a casual self hoster with Gitea running exclusively to clone GitHub repos for archival purposes. Think Nintendo gaming adjacent and risking DMCA. Is there any reason for me to switch to forgejo while I have the chance?
As I understand it, forgejo came about when someone maneuvered to consolidate control of gitea. So I guess if you stay you may eventually become subject to various anti-user practices that non-open software tend to gravitate toward
They formed an llc to help get funding for the project and to hire maintainers and the like. They’ve also contracted with some other companies to add support for things like the security tab (from gh), azure support, etc that are currently only available on “enterprise” gitea because of contract reasons. Last I heard the goal was to get those contributed to the main oss gitea but it’s a bit of work to get done because lawyers
My question would be, if you’re only archiving repos, why do you need a forge?
A simple git clone <repo> to any your archival directory would be enough to store them, there’s no need for you to use a forge software.
Are there any other features of gitea you use?
I like having the codebase in an easily presentable way. Git clone with a cron job would work fine but doesn’t tickle my fancy enough.
If you mean a (read-only) web interface, there’s also cgit and gitweb.
I mean, it’s your party and if Gitea works for you, that’s great. It still is a bigger piece of software than what you need (or at least what you’ve told so far), it’s up to you to determine if you’re fine with that.
