as part of the project forgejo FORK of the joint development platform
October 25, founder of Gitea ( lunny ) and one of the active participants
( techknowlogick ) Without preliminary consultation with the community announced on the creation of the commercial company Gitea Limited, which was transferred to domains and trademarks (trademarks and domains initially belonged to the founder of the project). The company announced its intention to develop an expanded commercial version of the Gitea platform, provide paid support services, conduct training and create cloud hosting of repositories.
At the same time, it was stated that the Gitea project itself remains open and belonging to the community, and Gitea Limited will act as a kind of intermediary between the community and other companies interested in the use and development of Gitea. The new company also intended to ensure payment of work in a part -time mode for several accompanying Gitea (eventually planned to transfer them for a full time and employ additional developers). The plans also had the creation of a special fund through which third -party companies could sponsor the implementation of the desired innovations, the introduction of optimizations and the correction of specific flaws.
A similar step was regarded by part of the participants from the community as a capture of management over the project. Before creating fork, it was published by open letter , which signed 50 developers of Gitea, with the proposal to create a non-profit organization belonging to the community for chickening the project And to convey to her, not a commercial company, brands and Gitea domains. Gitea Limited ignored the offer of the community and confirmed that she now fully controls the project. After that, it was decided that the community has no other way out how to create Fork and consider it as the main project to continue further work.
It is noteworthy that the Gitea project in December 2016 was based as the Fork of the project gogs created by a group of enthusiasts dissatisfied with the management organization in the project. The main motives for creating fork were the desire to transfer management to the community and simplify participation in the development of independent developers. Instead of the model used in the GOGS, based on the addition of code only through one main mayor, which single -handedly makes decisions, a model of separation of powers with the provision of the right to add code to the repository for several active developers was applied to GiteA.