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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Show threadAlexandraMay 20, 2025

@zkat I host a pair of small website I made for fun/RP projects through GitHub and GitHub pages but from what I read of Codeberg they aren't considered FOSS as it's not software. I did think of migrating from GitHub but as I can't self host, I don't feel like I have much options?

Asking for an opinion. 

Show threadCinderMay 22, 2025
@AlexInBlue @zkat Codeberg is an organisation, the software they use is Forgejo (which is GPLv3 for v9.0 and above and MIT for anything below v9)
Show threadCinderMay 22, 2025
@AlexInBlue @zkat Docs for forgejo can be found at https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/ for self-hosting/installing ​​
Forgejo v11.0 documentation | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.

Show threadAlexandraMay 22, 2025

@tulpenkiste Codeberg is also the platform a la Github tho?

The way I read it is Codeberg is a platform, running an instance of Forgejo, but also the organization administering it.

Whatever is the distiction, I cannot self host an instance of Forgejo as I don't have the skills/knowledge for it nor the hardware/budget/tools.

Show threadCinderMay 22, 2025
@AlexInBlue Yeah ​​ doesn't make it any less FOSS though
Show threadAlexandraMay 22, 2025

@tulpenkiste never said it's less FOSS?

My main problem is that I don't see alternatives to GitHub for my use case given that Codeberg is, from my understanding, strictly for software open source and I cannot self host.

Show threadCinderMay 22, 2025
@AlexInBlue I was referring to your original comment ​​
Plus, its not like codeberg is the only forgejo instance. I'm sure theres one out there that allows non-foss projects to host with them
Show threadAlexandra
@tulpenkiste it's what I host on GitHub that is not considered FOSS as per my understanding of Codeberg policies, not that Codeberg is not FOSS.
May 22, 2025 at 9:49amWeb