> and never actually does anything new afaik, it's just Gitea under another name, while taking money too

This is really unfair to the many people who spend their free time working on Forgejo, please stop spreading nonsense. They have worked hard on "boring" improvements like translations, accessibility and proper unit and e2e testing, but also UI improvements, federation support, and other genuinely new features (asset quotas, wiki search, ...). Take a look for yourself: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls.

Regarding the money part, Forgejo is not monetized. It is a true FOSS project (recently re-licensed as GPLv3), not open-core like Gitea. The only funding they receive is from donations and grants, they are not selling a product.

> (and never actually does anything new afaik, it's just Gitea under another name, while taking money too)

What evidence do you have for this strong claim? I’m using Forgejo and contributed to the docs once. It seems to me real work is happening in Forgejo. A lot from what I can see is stabilizing infrastructure and fixing bugs. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

The money that Forgejo takes is €60/month in Liberapay donations, and some grants to develop federation features so I think it's a little disingenuous to compare it to Gitea's pivot to open core and hosted cloud service.

> Gitea goes commercial, making previous community contributions into essentially free labor for their profit

Gitea (like Gogs) is under MIT license, which allow commercial applications. Is the new expectation of open source that we grant everyone license terms that they shouldn't use? I don't understand this at all.

Forgejo is under GPL-3.0, which also allows commercial applications. Should we expect the Forgejo community to start name-calling any company that would use Forgejo according to its license terms?

There's a bit of a difference between a downstream commercial host and turning the open-source project into open-core. Gitea went from a rotating governance to deciding half of the decision-makers must now come from a for-profit company that now competes with the open-source offering.

What's not in the "core"? More importantly, what is in Forgejo and not in Gitea's "core"?

How viable is gogs right now? I see that there is some activity on the repo but I guess there's no reason to not use Gitea or Forgejo?

Plot twist: Gogs was never viable.

> In my point of view, as long as no deadlock..data race is unavoidable.

https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/613

> The payload comes from request somehow is not always in a clean format, so we have to preform a clean operation to remove unless characters:

    func cleanCommand(cmd string) string {
       i := strings.Index(cmd, "git")
       if i == -1 {
           return cmd
       }
       return cmd[i:]
    }

https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/ssh-server-in-go/

https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/7777

I actually went back to it after the gitea pivot and was surprised that it actually performed way better on my rpi.

But ymmv, I'm sure it's mostly because of how resource constrained it is.

It does what I want is completely FOSS and low maintenance. Perfect for my home setup, but different people will have different preferences