[gklitz]

I really don’t get this. The only reason anyone ever had to run gitea instead of gitlab or GitHub was that it was a more bare bones but open source alternative. Now they are dropping the open source part and stepping into the arena of competing on enterprise features against gitlab and GitHub? Why would anyone ever chose gitea over them?

[LightFog]

This is exactly my feeling - it would be pretty brave for any enterprise to adopt this ahead of incumbents when it is so far behind and they are likely going to start locking away the enterprise features anyway. The whole upside is that all features were open source and could be easily patched/worked around as needed.

[kj4ips]

I run it in my homelab, because gitlab is really reasource intensive by comparison, and I need it to work when the network is out. The annoying part is that means outside contributions that support enterprise-y features are probably not going to be accepted. Gitea does not appear to use a CLA, so they at least shouldn't be able to re-license existing OSS, but the base license is MIT, so no virality.

[alanwreath]

Where are they dropping open source?

Seems like they’re just adopting a common model of free open source offerings but with the carrot of enterprise management.