Codeberg e.V. is a German

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specialized in

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services.

Services

Codeberg provides an online collaborative software development environment with Forgejo, static page hosting with Codeberg Pages, a collaborative translation web platform with Weblate and

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with

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. Development of the

Gitea Gitea () is a forge software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking, code review, continuous integration, kanban boards, tickets, and wikis. It supports self ...

-fork Forgejo also takes place on Codeberg.

History

After Microsoft's 2018 purchase of GitHub, developers Holger Wächtler, Thomas Boerger, and David Schneiderbauer forked software forge software

with a project called TeaHub. In January 2019, Codeberg e.V. launched with an initial 25 members and began publishing monthly newsletters on the status of its main project Codeberg.org. The organization selected the

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for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members' concerns that a software project repository hosted in the

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could be removed if a malicious actor made

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. After one month, the Codeberg e.V. organization had 25 members, and Codeberg.org hosted 333 repositories with 379 users. As of February 2024, Codeberg has 117000 projects and 95000 users.

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* {{Bug tracking systems Open-source software hosting facilities Bug and issue tracking software Free software websites Git (software) Project hosting websites Project management software Version control Git repository hosting websites

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