A) It's forgejo, so any forgejo instance (including Codeberg) can access it (since it's federated.

B) Coordinating something like this eu-wide is much more difficult than in just the netherlands.

Just like the Fediverse, it's actually better and healthier if more people/groups/nations host their own (whether public or private). More diversity, less centralization.

The lack of clean and transparent federation between them is certainly inconvenient but is not a permanent roadblock, it is simply a known and well-understood technical problem that work is ongoing to solve. git itself already has very mature support for complete decentralization and decentralized workflows, it's all of Github's feature layers like user accounts, PR management, issue tracking, CI/CD and the various other workflow and project management layers that may need to be connected and federated across the different Forgejo-based platforms (and hopefully other platforms too in the future). Users and permissions and PRs and issue reporting are among the most critical parts, and I think they are looking at Fediverse's ActivityPub as a method for enabling much of that.

The more large organizations that choose to build their own viable, permanent and financially stable Forgejo platforms, the more attractive and necessary proper federation between them becomes, and the more assured it will become the first-class feature it needs to be.

We are not building a mere Github replacement that drops into its centralized place, wears its shoes and follows its same path to inevitable corporate capture and enshittification. We are building a decentralized standard to be the democratic foundation for future software development and collaboration that no one can, should, or will be able to exclusively control. It's not done yet, but this the right way for it to start so that something like SourceForge (for those old enough to remember that trainwreck) or Github never becomes a problem again.

Another problem is language or languages, EU has what? 15 different languages and none of them will agree which language should be primary because not everyone speaks English, for me it wouldn't be a problem i'm from the Balkans, i work and live in Germany and use German at home and at work and mainly use English on my phone, PC and while watching movies, shows, etc. so for me there is a choice of 3 different languages while my wife can speak only German so how would we all agree what language should be the primary for this project?

And here’s the thing most people miss:

robots are writing this junk

Can I apply for an exemption?

Yes, that’s true for the git repo itself, but a git forge can provide a multitude of related services, including issues and pull request management, CI/CD pipelines, wikis, static content hosting, package registries, etc. which are not as easily migrated.

The website around it is also just optional. You can dump git repos anywhere you want.

Of course the website is helpful and adds tooling, bit it's an extra nonetheless

Git forges provides a lot of features these days now. From Merge requests, forks, issues tracking, secret branches, to team management stuff.

A lot more stuff gets bolted onto but they are arguably more optional but for some are the point lol

Like ci/cd at the forge level is the best to me for dev centric flows

Are you a git expert ?

It's the Netherlands. It will have blackjack, hookers, weed and shrooms.

git init blacjack

git init hookers

Digital sovereignty. Codeberg is funding development of forgejo. Forgejo will federate to other instances. So you can have your own repo and someone on another forgejo can interact remotely. So no need for centralized platforms anymore. Power of the Fediverse! :-)

they wanna own their infra i guess. not being dependent is a good thing for a gov, and in choosing forgejo they’re basically choosing codeberg after all.

Same same

LibreOffice exists and works very well!

From TFA:

GitLab made it further in the evaluation but didn't survive it either. The issue was its open-core model, where the Community Edition is genuinely free software but the Enterprise Edition is not.

Truth

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

Definitely. The last time I checked, your only hosting options if you wanted to use Mercurial directly were Heptapod and ($DEITY help us) Sourceforge.

Is hg-git lacking specific features that you need?

If there is any such thing as perfect software, I would say Git is probably it.

Mercurial seems cool but I don't think there's a real reason to move away from Git unless they come up with some groundbreaking new feature that no one has even imagined yet.

They're using the same software (Forgejo)

More hosts better than one. I doubt codeberg will be able to sustain the load remaining as free as it is now when it will be popular enough that every cs student will be using it for their assignments (forgetting to gitignore their IDE cache files obviously). Or some smartasses start abusing it for free storage. I mean everything that github has to deal with currently.

IIRC their tos says it must only be used for opensource software (i don't remember if it was enforced yet but expect that they can remove private repos at any time or make them paid feature). Same story with sourcehut

Not all projects might be open source if they've got tools used by the police, military, etc. Codeberg doesn't allow repositories that aren't open source.