[connorshea]

My understanding was that the maintainer of Gogs had stopped replying to any issues/PRs for a period of a few weeks and refused to add any other maintainers to the project, so people wanted to fork and ensure that it'd always have an active maintainer.

https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/

[cube2222]

He did have some periods of inactivity. He didn't want to add other maintainers because he wanted to keep the code quality as good he wanted as far as I know and that's also why he didn't accept pr's, because the code quality wasn't good enough for him.

He was also totally ok with the fork to gitea.

Gitea exists so that more features can be added faster, not necessarily keeping the code quality ideal.