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"Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge" That says absolutely nothing. The "What is Forgejo?" question is unanswered and instead you get a lot of

by 0xblinq 27d ago

"Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge" That says absolutely nothing. The "What is Forgejo?" question is unanswered and instead you get a lot of words about their values, their inclusivity, etc. And the next thing in the docs is how to install it. It's ridiculous. I still don't know what it is or what it does.

skydhash 27d ago
Forgejo > The name of the software self-hosted > You install it on your server lightweight > It does not consume a lot of resources (cpu, disk, ram) software forge > offers tools that help with creating software collaboratively (repository hosting, change request management, wiki for docs,…)
fwip 27d ago
> a package of FLOSsoftware that you could run on the cloud of your choice that offers most of what GitHub does (niceties on top of Git) without the centralization. You're in luck, GP comment described it for you.
mananaysiempre 27d ago
“Software forge” is an established[1] term by this point: a piece of software providing a full set of features for collaborative development, usually at least code hosting with a web interface, tickets, and webpage hosting, and these days often also code review and integrated CI or at least the possibility of integrating CI. It’s admittedly squishy but in the same way “IDE” is squishy, which is to say it’s still well-defined enough to be useful. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)