Katerina MarchánMay 19, 2025

In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:

Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?

I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?

Boosts and ideas welcome!

If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org

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@zkat @Codeberg I've copied all my projects to a #Forgejo instance on my own server, and written up the experience here:

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-03-08-installing-forgejo/

In summary, setting up Forgejo was pretty easy, and moving projects over from #Github was beautifully streamlined. But I have not removed my projects from Github because, at least until Forgejo's #ActivityPub integration is working well, the discoverability of projects is not good.

My instance is here:

https://git.journeyman.cc/

Installing Forgejo

Most of my open source work is on Github. It's been there for years — since long before Github was bought by Microsoft. Github has a lot of good features, not least that, following on from Freshmeat in the 1990s and Sourceforge in the 2000s, it has become the go-to place so look for interesting open source projects and libraries.

The Fool on the Hill
May 20, 2025 at 7:06amWeb