Gitea

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Gitea
Initial release17 October 2016
Stable release
1.22.3 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 9 October 2024;36 days ago (9 October 2024)
Repository
Written in Go, JavaScript
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform x86-64, ARM
Available in Many languages
Type Collaborative version control (forge)
License MIT License
Website gitea.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Gitea ( /ɡɪˈtiː/ [3] ) is a forge software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, kanban boards, tickets, and wikis. It supports self-hosting [4] [5] [6] [7] but also provides a free public first-party instance. It is a fork of Gogs and is written in Go. [4] [5] [6] [7] Gitea can be hosted on all platforms supported by Go [8] including Linux, macOS, and Windows. [5] The project is funded on Open Collective. [9]

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History

Gitea is an open-source Git service created by Lunny Xiao, who was also a founder of its predecessor, the self-hosted Git service Gogs. Xiao invited a group of users and contributors from the Gogs community to join in the development of Gitea. While Gogs was open-source, its repository was controlled by a single maintainer, which limited community input and development speed. In response to these limitations, the Gitea developers decided to fork Gogs in November 2016, creating a community-driven development model. Gitea had its official 1.0 release in December 2016.

Forgejo fork

Forgejo logo Forgejo-wordmark.svg
Forgejo logo

In October 2022, maintainers Lunny Xiao and Matti Ranta founded the company Gitea Limited with the goal of offering hosting services [10] [11] using specialized versions of Gitea. [12] Its open-source counterpart maintains the MIT License. The shift away from a community ownership model received some resistance from some contributors, which led to the formation of a software fork called Forgejo. [13] [14] Consequently, the software forge Codeberg began using Forgejo instead of Gitea. [15] [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Voting for new logo #1516". GitHub .
  2. ↑ "Release 1.22.3". 9 October 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  3. ↑ "Gitea - Git with a cup of tea". Archived from the original on May 6, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023– via GitHub. Gitea is pronounced /ɡɪˈtiː/ as in gi-tea with a hard g.
  4. 1 2 Rutland, David (December 9, 2022). "Install Gitea on a Raspberry Pi to Create Your Own Code Repository". MUO. Archived from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 Papadopoulou, Eirini-Eleni (January 28, 2019). "Gitea is all grown up: What's new in version 1.7.0". JAXenter. Archived from the original on May 17, 2022.
  6. 1 2 Santilli, Sandro (December 8, 2016). "Welcome to Gitea". Gitea Blog. Archived from the original on April 7, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  7. 1 2 Krill, Paul (January 4, 2017). "Developers pick up new Git code-hosting option". InfoWorld . Archived from the original on December 1, 2022. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Install gitea on openSUSE using the Snap Store". Snapcraft.
  9. ↑ "Gitea". Open Collective . 25 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea". Gitea Blog. October 25, 2022. Archived from the original on April 13, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
  11. ↑ Xiao, Lunny (October 30, 2022). "A message from Lunny on Gitea Ltd. and the Gitea project". Gitea Blog. Archived from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Gitea Official Website". Gitea. Archived from the original on June 30, 2024. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Forgejo FAQ | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge". forgejo.org. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
  14. ↑ 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.
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  16. ↑ "Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea [LWN.net]". LWN.net . Retrieved 2024-02-27.


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