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by dachary 1331 days ago
Gitea was a community led project with democratic elections. The entire community was taken by surprise by the announcement. This is what you would call a "breaking change" in a release :-)

One thing is for certain: Gitea is no longer what it was a few days ago and there is no telling what the next 10 years have in store.
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throwaccount12 1331 days ago
> The entire community

The blog post says maintainers have been hired, as well as the Blender blog post is months old, seems like this has been public knowledge for a while, but that it is just formally being announced now.

Edit: seems I am getting downvoted, but I searched dachary who has a financial interest in Gitea, and has posted about the company in the past, so he clearly has known about this for a while.

I wonder why he happens to not mention a conflict.

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jonnytran 1331 days ago
I currently work for a company where one of my co-workers is a maintainer of the official Gitea repo.

There was no mention of this anywhere prior to the blog post, including in private Discord channels. It has _not_ been public knowledge for a while.

What you said is false. I suspect that is why you're getting downvoted.

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throwaccount12 1331 days ago
> What you said is false. I suspect that is why you're getting downvoted.

It's not, you can confirm what I said. Look at the link in the blog post that points to public mention of it months ago, as well as the user I replied to posts about the company to his personal site with excepts from the public matrix channel.

I'm active in open source and lots of chat happens in matrix, maybe your coworker missed it?

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dachary 1330 days ago
All you found was essentially me guessing from weak signals with no confirmation. As for my financial interest in Gitea ... I was never involved with the newly formed company. If you mean that I raised over 100,000€ for the benefit of the Gitea project in the past year, this is a different matter. You can read about it at https://discourse.gitea.io/t/nlnet-grant-for-federation-conc...
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throwaccount12 1329 days ago
Interesting that you forgot to mention the company YOU started to sell Gitea, even after multiple opportunities to mention it. I also checked the maintainer list, you have mentioned democracy many times in this thread, but yet you have not voted, nor maintain gitea.

By not mentioning this major conflict brings your motives into suspicion.

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