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Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits

101 points by speckx

by bwblabs

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Very positive to have a governmental hosted git/code platform, although I would still advise Gitea (it's not documented that pick is explored).
I'm a self hosting GoGogs / Gitea user for almost 10 years, I did follow the Gitea fork. However regarding the Forgejo fork: the main contributors stayed with Gitea. The ideologically forked Forgejo made some license changes and hard fork decisions that increased the maintenance burden even more, resulting in missing upstream features and decreased security. Forgejo is more busy managing ideals, than creating software.

by rhdunn

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I used Gitea for a while. I eventually switched to gitolite and CGit primarily because Gitea (and Forgejo) force you into a flat organization/project structure. This makes organizing personal projects harder because:
1. you need to create an organization for each group (lang, tools, template, etc.)
2. you can't create more complex organization structure (e.g. template/python/python-flask-template)
3. you can't group projects with different top-level names (e.g. apps, tools, lang; such as lang/java and tools/gradle) or across a top-level name (e.g. by programming language such as lang/typescript and lang/python)

by mindcrash

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Not sure if it's mentioned because I didn't read the whole thing but maybe it's good to know for those of you not familiar with Dutch government that most open source code (and possibly even private code) from all Dutch government orgs is currently hosted on private/public GitHub repositories.
If they move to self hosted Forgejo (which I assume this meeting is all about) Microsoft is going to lose a pretty big customer.
And yes, (good) CI is still is a big blocker to move to Forgejo for any org (or self hosting). Hope they can speed things up a bit there now they now a gov org is seriously interested.

by mac-attack

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If, like me, you are part of the 99% unfamiliar w/ OSPO et al: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-so...
Good to see forgejo making inroads as someone who also self-hosts it.

by moelf

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by kouunji

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This is brilliant, especially if this kind of approach was adopted in policy development. Chunks of vetted “code” that is transparently shared and can be used by other governments facing similar challenges…imagine…

by ekjhgkejhgk

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It's a shame that oliverpool uses the language of "open source software", especially given that forgejo has a Free license.
Words matter, and this would've been a great opportunity to raise awareness to the problem of oppressive software. I think these days most people have an intuition that this is happening.