Gitea

GitLab if it were lighter and had a slimmed down development target. Wonderful program to self-host your Git projects with; almost no complaints

Strength: • Libre Source (Open Source). If you are not familiar with "Libre Source", it means this software has both stronger security & stronger privacy. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions. • Attractive MIT license

Challenge: • The main challenge with Gitea is that starting in October 2022 Gitea is owned and controlled by a for-profit company. The risk with for-profit company is that, usually, they value money above people. So in the future, it is very high risk that Gitea will introduce lock-ins to monetize. Functionalities available only if you pay. And increasingly make decision without involving the community or just ignore it. Why. Simply because legally speaking, for-profit organization communicate a clear intent that they value money above people. Above you ;)

___• "In October 2022 the domains and trademark of Gitea were transferred to a for-profit company without knowledge or approval of the community. Despite writing an open letter, the takeover was later confirmed." Source at:

______• https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social

______• https://archive.ph/T573R#selection-83.0-99.83

___• To resolve this challenge, I suggest to migrating to any alternative to your liking which is owned by a NOT-for-profit organization. The keyword here is "NOT-for-profit". Because NOT-for-profit value people above money. In comparison, https://forgejo.org is owned by its community :) In other words, owned and controlled by YOU.

___• "Forgejo was created in 2022 because we think that the project should be owned by an independent community. If you second that, then Forgejo is for you! Our promise: Independent Free/Libre Software forever!" Source:

______• https://codeberg.org/Forgejo/forgejo

______• https://archive.ph/UZx6n

___• One of many examples of people who migrated AWAY from Gitea is Codeberg. Since December 2022, Codeberg is now powered by Forgejo. Codeberg host over 50,000 projects and 40,000 users.

___• Codeberg wrote: "Codeberg needs to run on a Free Software codebase maintained by trustworthy people. And the Gitea community deserves to be in control of the project when they generously volunteer their time. It must not be the company accepting the community. It must be the community generously accepting the company, and Gitea Ltd should be thankful for this, instead of trying to dictate how governance shall work in the future. Luckily Codeberg is in a unique position to reconnect the Gitea community in one place, independent and out of control of Gitea Ltd. And so we did." "Codeberg will use Forgejo instead of Gitea starting with version 1.18.0" Source:

______• https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html

______• https://archive.ph/qcva1

• Starting in October 2022, Gitea lost support from most of its community. In other words, Gitea is a SINKING ship. To resolve this challenge, I suggest considering migrating to the drop-in replacement and fork at https://Forgejo.org

• Very basic time tracking, email notification on events, and Kanban board. In the future, those popular features will likely grow. But for now there are very basic.

___• Time tracking do not yet have reporting features. This is essential for Product/Project Managers services.

___• Email notifications include only "Email on mention", "Enable", or fully "Disable Email Notification", and other options need to be enabled for EACH user.

___• Kanban board can not easily be filtered to reduce the clutter. Which is challenging for large teams.