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  • Comment: Too many forgejo.org and Forgejo Blog citations. Please use fewer primary sources so as to demonstrate that the topic is deemed notable by independent, reliable sources.
    The article doesn't provide sufficient context to someone not familiar with the topic on why the topic is independently notable.
    There are some sentences like: "A future objective of Forgejo is to utilize the ActivityPub protocol (known for its usage in the fediverse) to federate forges via ForgeFed" which seem like too much detailed information for a Wikipedia article and of unclear relevance to readers.
    There is a citation error: "Missing or empty title" (please fix). Caleb Stanford (talk) 21:18, 8 March 2025 (UTC)
  • 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.
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    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
Initial release15 December 2022
Stable release
10.0.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 8 February 2025; 19 March 2025
Repository
Written inGo, JavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
Platformx86-64, ARM
Available inMany languages
TypeCollaborative software development (forge)
LicenseGNU General Public License, version 3.0 or later
Websitehttps://forgejo.org/

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]

History

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Forgejo was initially created in December 2022[6] as a fork of Gitea. The fork occurred after a for-profit limited corporation ran by the lead maintainer of the project, Lunny Xiao, silently transferred Gitea's trademarks and operations to the company and began to establish an open-core model.[7][8]

Following the discovery of the transfer, many Gitea contributors signed an open letter asking for the project's trademarks and domains to be placed under community management,[9] but after the company rejected to transfer the properties, those contributors chose to fork the codebase.[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]

Hard fork and license change

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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 compatibility with Gitea became more complex as new features and changes were implemented that were not compatible with Forgejo, as well as to liberate software development from the shackles of proprietary tools.[12]

In August 2024, Forgejo moved from the MIT license to the copyleft GNU General Public License.[13][14] This does not involve a re-licensing of the existing codebase, but rather reflects a community decision made a year prior that Forgejo would begin to accept GPL-licensed contributions.[15] As a result, the license of the overall package is now reflected to be covered under the GPL.

Interoperability between forges

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One of the main goals for the future of Forgejo is their plan to implement interoperability between different installations. While repositories can be mirrored from any other Git forge, the project has begun work on implementing support for the ActivityPub protocol, allowing users to collaborate with each other using Forgejo's features.[16] The project has received funding from the NLnet organization for both the protocol extension needed to accommodate the feature subset, dubbed as "ForgeFed", and its implementation into Forgejo.[17][18] As of 2025, the ability to federate "stars" on repositories across Forgejo installations has been built,[19] while other forge packages such as GitLab have also begun work on implementing support for ForgeFed.[20]

Users

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While Codeberg is known as being the largest server running Forgejo and is one of the project's primary contributors, the Fedora Linux project has begun to adopt the software for their code forge, moving away from the previous forge software, Pagure.[21][22]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Forgejo Security Releases v10.0.1 and v7.0.13".
  2. ^ "Forgejo FAQ | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge". forgejo.org.
  3. ^ Edenhauser, Markus (October 26, 2023). Git trifft Mikrocontroller, Dein umfassender Guide zur Versionierung in Arduino-Projekten inkl. GitHub Beispiele (in German). Selbstverlag. p. 9.1. ISBN 9783757972936.
  4. ^ "Packaging". Delightful Forgejo. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  5. ^ "Versions for forgejo". Repology. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  6. ^ "Beyond Coding. We forge". Forgejo Blog. 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  7. ^ "Forgejo FAQ | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge". forgejo.org. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
  8. ^ a b Tietze, Christian (November 25, 2022). "Gitea Ltd. Takes Over Gitea Open Source Project, Community Pushes Back". christiantietze.de. Archived from the original on February 12, 2023. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  9. ^ "Open Letter to Gitea". 2022-10-28. Archived from the original on 2022-10-31. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  10. ^ "Codeberg launches Forgejo". Codeberg.org. December 15, 2022. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
  11. ^ "New Git repository faces corporate open source doubts | TechTarget". Software Quality. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  12. ^ "Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea [LWN.net]". LWN.net. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
  13. ^ "Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git". Forgejo Blog. 2024-08-22. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  14. ^ "Forgejo changes license to GPLv3+ [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  15. ^ Warren, Earl (2023-04-18). "[MISSION] on Forgejo accepting copyleft contributions". forgejo/governance – Codeberg.org. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  16. ^ Berre, Daniel Le (2023-11-15). Higher Education and Research Forges in France - Definition, uses, limitations encountered and needs analysis (report thesis). Comité pour la science ouverte.
  17. ^ "NLnet; ForgeFed". nlnet.nl. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  18. ^ "NLnet; Federated software forges with Forgejo". nlnet.nl. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  19. ^ "Show and Tell: Federation at Forgejo". fosdem.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
  20. ^ "Support ActivityPub for GitLab (&11247) · Epics · GitLab.org · GitLab". GitLab. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  21. ^ amoloney (2024-12-24). "Fedora Chooses Forgejo!". Fedora Community Blog. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  22. ^ "Fedora moves towards Forgejo (Fedora Magazine) [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
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