A new pilot will investigate the use of Forgejo (A non profit FOSS alternative to github and gitea) in german schools
Letter from Codeberg: November 2023 — Codeberg News
i was confused for way to long, trying to figure out
why a pilot would investigate a github alternative.
im an idiot 😂😂😂
He's not even experienced, he's new! Why's he the one we picked to investigate?
I knew about codeberg but not forgejo
Codeberg is a public non-profit Forgejo instance hosted by the actual maintainers of the tool. They’re compromised with free software and provide their services with no pay walls other than a single limitaiton: only accepting open-source projects in their instance. That shouldn’t be a problem if you want to work on open-source, right?
Forgejo is developed by the people at Codeberg, they just rebranded their own Forgejo instance to Codeberg and added some extra around it (like Pages or the FAQ sections)
GitHub uses Git, and you don’t need any cool interface for Git, just a terminal. But we don’t like terminals, they’re ugly! Issues, pull requests, projects, wikis, actions… thanks to code management.
This guy doesn't git.
They’re compromised with free software
Lol
Noticed someone mentioning this (the product ) last weekend and did a next-next-finish install on some old hardware.
This is really nice, got me some nice actions running already.
I used to build locally and use git, cgit and Trac, but will probably move everything to forgejo.
Trac
That's a name I haven't heard in a looong time. I used to use a pre-1.0 version before GitHub became popular.
I’m confused on the use of GitHub in schools, can’t they just host their own git?
Hah hahaha hahahahaha
Our school systems are admined by teachers with only half a clue of what they are doing with only a few hours per week as a budget. This isn't meant as an offense, math teachers that like to fiddle with computers in their free time are just not qualified to run the infrastructure for schools
Source: am the son of such a teacher in Germany
wasn't sure if I was on linux or esperanto community for a minute there
afaik none of the current options offer fedi support.
Forgejo is a Fork of Gitea made because Gitea is managed by a For-Profit company. Their code is almost identical, in fact Forgejo is a drop-in replacement for Gitea. Gitea and Forgejo are (iirc) both working on the same federation support but Forgejo seems to be further ahead since they announced that they'll upstream the Federation code to Gitea.
Well at least they're going to usei something decent and not the Apache Allura crap.