Gitea () is a

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software package for hosting

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using

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as well as other collaborative features like

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, kanban boards,

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, and

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. It supports

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but also provides a free public first-party instance. It is a

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of Gogs and is written in Go. Gitea can be hosted on all platforms supported by Go including

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, and

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. The project is funded on

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History

Gitea is an open-source Git service created by Lunny Xiao, who was also a founder of its predecessor, the self-hosted Git service Gogs. Xiao invited a group of users and contributors from the Gogs community to join in the development of Gitea. While Gogs was open-source, its repository was controlled by a single maintainer, which limited community input and development speed. In response to these limitations, the Gitea developers decided to fork Gogs in November 2016, creating a community-driven development model. Gitea had its official 1.0 release in December 2016.

Forgejo fork

In October 2022, maintainers Lunny Xiao and Matti Ranta founded the company Gitea Limited with the goal of offering hosting services using specialized versions of Gitea. Its open-source counterpart maintains the

MIT License The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it puts very few restrictions on reuse and therefore has high license compatibility. Unl ...

. The shift away from a community ownership model received resistance from some contributors, which led to the formation of a

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called Forgejo. Consequently, the software forge

Codeberg Codeberg e.V. is a German nonprofit organization specialized in open-source software development services. Services Codeberg provides an online collaborative software development environment with Forgejo, static page hosting with Codeberg ...

began using Forgejo instead of Gitea.

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