Codeberg

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Codeberg e.V.
FormationSeptember 2018;7 years ago (2018-09)
Type Eingetragener Verein
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Services
Membership1100+ [1]
Expenses€1050 per month (2022) [2]
Staff1 part-time (2022) [2]
Website codeberg.org

Codeberg e.V. is a German nonprofit organization specialized in open-source software development services.

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Services

Codeberg provides an online collaborative software development environment with Forgejo, static page hosting with Codeberg Pages, a collaborative translation web platform with Weblate and CI/CD with Woodpecker CI and Forgejo Actions.

Development of the Gitea-fork Forgejo also takes place on Codeberg. [3]

History

Codeberg e.V. was established in September 2018 with 7 founding members and launched as Codeberg.org in January 2019. [4] The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members' concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [5] After one month, the Codeberg e.V. organization had 25 members, and Codeberg.org hosted 333 repositories with 379 users. [6]

In 2022, the Software Freedom Conservancy started its "Give up GitHub"-campaign, which included Codeberg as one of the suggested alternatives. [7] In December 2022, Codeberg launched Forgejo, a fork of Gitea, in response to a controversial change in direction of the Gitea Project, initially synchronising all changes which occurred on Gitea. [8] In February 2024, the Forgejo project decided to cease synchronising with changes from Gitea, [9] citing reduced maintenance overhead and stability reasons.

As of November 2025, Codeberg hosts over 300,000 repositories and has more than 200,000 registered user accounts and its members had also grown to 1208. [3] [10] At the end of November 2025, the Zig programming language announced moving to Codeberg as "GitHub no longer demonstrates commitment to engineering excellence." [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Codeberg.org". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. Archived from the original on 3 October 2025. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Letter from Codeberg: We are now an employer!". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. 15 June 2022. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  3. 1 2 Brockmeier, Joe (23 February 2024). "Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea". LWN.net . Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  4. ↑ "Monthly Report January 2019". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. 8 February 2019. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Shimokawa, Andreas (15 November 2019). "Codeberg: A free home for free projects". South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON). Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "Monthly Report January 2019". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. 8 February 2019. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy". sfconservancy.org. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  8. ↑ The Forgejo Contributors. "Codeberg launches Forgejo". Codeberg. Codeberg e.V. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "Forgejo forks its own path forward". Forgejo. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and upwards!". blog.codeberg.org. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
  11. ↑ Claburn, Thomas (2 December 2025). "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service". The Register.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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