## Why join
I didn’t talk about myself before, so some people may think that I am an
employee from the company. So I think it is necessary to talk about why
and how I joined.
At the begining, my boss gave me a task to find a git software which can
self hosted in on-premise. Then I found that there are not many project
which meet our needs. But finally, I found Gitea. A easy use, easy
maintenance, and without a good machine you can also run it.
At that time, I just finished my previous work which is using helm to
deploy something in K8s. So I tried to use Gitea’s helm chart to deploy
in my work PC to see whether we can use it. But soon, I found a bug, and
reported it (https://gitea.com/gitea/helm-chart/issues/382), but after
about 1 month, there’s no fix. So I try to check the source code, and I
found that it is caused by Gitea’s code and it is easy to fix it. So I
created an issue (https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/22523) in
Gitea. But unfortunately, after a long time again, it is still not
fixed. So I tried to finish it by myself.
I’m not a pro programmer, coding is just my hobby since I was 13 or 14
years old. (I will tell the reason later), I even don’t know the
workflow about the contribution of OSS, so maybe I did some bad things
at the early time, I apologize.
But the people here are very kind, at that time, I start to consider
whether it has worth to recommend to my boss. So I started to use it,
but I found more and more bugs in a short time. Japanese company is very
sensitive to it, so I gave up to recommend.
But I can try to fix them! Because I can learn too many things during
the contribution, not just about the programing but also the usage of
other tools and the general contribution rule in the world of OSS. It
let me grow up, and to become (maybe) a perfect full-stack engineer
which is my dream. (Why it is my dream? I made a wrong decision in my
college, I took/followed the advice of my parent, choosed communications
engineering instead of computer science which is my favorite thing)
# Why leave
Several days ago, there’s an
[article](https://juejin.cn/post/7446578471901626420#comment) came into
my eye. Something about JiHu (GitLab Ltd in China) start to file a
lawsuit to the company which is using GitLab CE version which is under
MIT License. So people start to find other git service/application to
avoid it. And in the this article, a project called Fogejo is mentioned.
It says it is a hard-fork of Gitea. But I don’t know the meaning of
`hard-fork`, so I access the home page of this project to find where it
comes from.
Finally, I found it here:
https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/#why-was-forgejo-created. They
said:
> As of early 2024, Forgejo is developed independently of Gitea, as a
“hard-fork”.
`hard-fork` has a quotation, so the meaning is not the original meaning
of it, but they said `as`, which means `like` or `similar` I think. So
just focus on the words before `as` is ok, because `hard-fork` is a
simile, `As of early 2024, Forgejo is developed independently of Gitea`
is what they want to say.
In my mind, this means:
since early 2024 Forgejo’s codes (new changes) are all written by
themselves, and emphasize that these changes are not related to Gitea,
because they can simply say `As of early 2024, Forgejo is developed
independently, as a “hard-fork”`
But after I check the commit history, I can still find some strange
commits in recent month:
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commits/branch/forgejo/search?q=author%3Ayp05327&all=
The author is me, but the commit is signed by someone I even never
heard.
Considering the words they said above, it feels/sounds like my work has
become their work. Although Gitea is under MIT license, is this allowed
in the OSS world?
Even it is allowed, I can not accept it personally.
So I created a issue to ask them:
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/6236https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/251
Finally, it seems that they understood the problem and promised to
improve it. But I also required a public statement to explain it which
means they need to apologize, otherwise it is hard to the users who
believe these are all their work know it, and it seems they ignored some
of my words again? So it is hard for me to believe they will really make
changes and post the apologize. If they did, I will consider to come
back. Otherwise, I think there’s no worth to continually contribute to
any OSS project, so I decided to leave.
ps: TOC voting is still ongoing, please remove me from the list. And I
will leave the organization after the merge.
At the end, thanks to all people who have helped me to finish the
contribution and teach me new knowledges.
Hello! After contributing for some time I am interested in taking a more
involved role as a maintainer. When time allows it, I plan to perform
code reviews, continue resolving/triaging issues, and engage with the
community to see if I can offer any useful insights. My current
interests are in backend work, but I plan to study the web frontend
architecture to see if I can contribute there as well.
Thanks for this awesome project. I hope I can both learn and contribute
to its continued success!
PR list:
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+author%3Akemzeb
Discord: kemzeb
Hi Gitea Team,
I would like to apply as a maintainer.
I don't have that much in-depth knowledge of the codebase, but I would
like to help to review PRs for the beginning in my free time and
contribute in frontend, backend tasks and new proposals.
Here is my PR list:-
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Apuni9869+is%3Amerged+
Hi all.
I would like to apply to be a maintainer please. I have [four accepted
PRs](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Agarymoon)
(such as they are), sign my commits, and have MFA enabled everywhere. My
hope is to continue with code contributions where I can (I'm not a
developer, just a wannabe), take some work off kdumont's hands, and
contribute on the infrastructure side where there is room 💚🍵
Thank you!
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Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
