There was an article about moving to Codeberg on the orange website yesterday, and out of interest to get an impression of what average programmers think of the idea of moving, I took at look at the comments. (Yeah, I know …)
I’m going to write here my thoughts on a general impression of the comment thread as a whole. (Rather than respond to individuals.)
To begin by addressing what seemed to be a misconception underlying a lot of the comments:
Codeberg, the website, does not aim to replace GitHub. We poke fun at their recent foibles in our PR sometimes, but we do not want to become them.
We do not want to replace one single point of failure with another! (Admittedly, I think Codeberg.org, run by a non-profit, as SPOF would be better than GitHub.com, run by Microsoft, as an SPOF, but that’s not the goal!)
We are much more excited by the idea of creating an ecosystem of forges (and different forge software) than in becoming the new one place where absolutely everything is hosted.
I am, for example, very pleased that even while switching to Forgejo, Fedora decided to keep on self-hosting rather than jumping to us.
To be clear, we’re open for everyone who needs us, especially individuals working on their own smaller projects. But other forges are our friends, not our competition
@dpk From OpenCommit side I'd like to chime in here that we agree. 💪
Our position is that we're aiming to become one(!) of the cornerstones in a #federated world of forges. We want to be there for anyone that doesn't want to or can't run their own #forge.
One of our beliefs is "one is none". One commercial, closed source entity like #Microsoft is bad, just like one #Codeberg or one #OpenCommit.
Hence our view is of a network of forges large and small to support #opensource together.
❤️
Daphne Preston-Kendal
OpenCommit Foundation