Do we still need a OSGeo software forge? (was Re: Trac/SVN/Gitea upgrade completed, tests welcome)

[Greg Troxel]

Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> writes:

> Everybody
> have sold their soul to github and are happily providing food to
> LLMs. Let's just accept it, bend to the powers governing the world,
> and move on.

Not everybody, and we're not happy.  github has been part of what's
wrong with the world for a long time and they are getting worse.
Delivering them content and people is not IMHO in the public interest.

I do agree about trac; I used to run it 2007-2015ish.

As for the real cool kids, github isn't cool and they are using forgejo,
either self-hosted or at codeberg.  So I see reasonable options:

  self-host gitlab (I think this is going to fade as reaosnable over
  time, so I don't think it's a good idea)

  self-host forgejo (forgejo is where the part of the community that
  cares about the problematic behavior of github is headed, as I see it)

  put official repos on codeberg, and donate some fraction of the
  previous costs of maintenance