Delightful Forgejo

A curated list of delightful Forgejo-related projects and resources.

Contents

• Official resources
• Documentation
  • Tutorials
• Public instances
• Packaging
• Forgejo Actions runners
• Clients
  • Mobile
  • Command-line
• Tools
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Monitoring
  • Bots
  • Scripts
  • Package deployment
  • API clients
• References
• Maintainers
• Contributors
• License

Emoji for each entry provide additional information on project status:

• = official Forgejo resources
• 👻 = inactive for over a year, or officially abandoned

Official resources

Resources maintained as part of the primary Forgejo project.

• Forgejo website
• Forgejo documentation
• Forgejo issue tracker
• Forgejo releases (RSS feed; Release notes)
• Forgejo runner
• Forgejo container images
• Forgejo Mastodon account
• Forgejo identity proofs (Keyoxide)

Documentation

In addition to Forgejo's official documentation, the following resources may be useful.

• Codeberg documentation - contains some Codeberg-specific parts but is mostly applicable to every Forgejo instance.
• Gitea documentation - mostly applicable to Forgejo as well as Gitea.

Tutorials

• Setting up a Self-Hosted Forgejo Actions Runner with Docker Compose.
• Forgejo in a nutshell - guide to setup Forgejo.
• Forgejo with LFS behind a VPN - guide to set up a Linux web server running Forgejo, Git-LFS, and a Wireguard VPN.
• UberLab installation guide - Forgejo installation guide for Uberspace.

Public instances

Forgejo instances with open registration.

• Codeberg - free and open for FOSS projects only, run by a German non-profit organization. Also provides hosted Woodpecker (CI) and Weblate (localisation).
• Disroot - a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization. Also provides many other free hosted services.
• pub.solar - Register/Login via pub.solar ID, run by a German tech collective with the goal to enable more people to use free software, have secure digital communications, and to take control over their private data.
• KaKi's git - free and open, run by a French web developer.
• dpaste git - free and open, run by a coffee lover.

Packaging

Platform-specific packages to easily install and update Forgejo on your system. These are generally maintained either by distro packagers or by community volunteers.

Also see forgejo package versions on Repology.

• Alpine
  • Alpine edge/testing forgejo package
• Arch Linux
  • Arch extra forgejo package
  • AUR forgejo-git package
• Debian/Ubuntu
  • unofficial forgejo-deb packages + repo
• Fedora
  • RPM copr repo
• FreeBSD
  • ports tree: www/forgejo - will be available in the quarterly ports branch from 2024Q2.
• Gentoo
  • Gentoo GURU www-apps/forgejo package
• Kubernetes
  • Helm chart - Helm chart for Forgejo, forked from the official Gitea helm chart
  • c4k-forgejo - Convention 4 Kubernetes, generates a kubernetes manifest for Forgejo including backup & monitoring.
• NixOS
  • NixOS master
  • NixOS unstable
• Snapcraft
  • unofficial forgejo snap package - currently building in launchpad
• Termux (Android)
  • forgejo package
• Void Linux
  • unofficial forgejo package template
• YunoHost
  • YunoHost package - install Forgejo quickly and simply on a YunoHost server
• Cloudron
  • Cloudron package - Install Forgejo on a Cloudron server

Forgejo actions runners

• Forgejo runner supports LXC & Docker & shell with binaries for GNU/Linux (amd64, arm64)
• act runner supports Docker & shell with binaries for GNU/Linux (amd64, arm64, arm[567]), FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS
• forgejo-hetzner-runner - Deploy Forgejo Actions runners on Hetzner infrastructure
• helm-chart - Deploy a Forgejo on the specified instance (default: codeberg.org), name and token (generated .runner config file keeps in a Kubernetes Secret).

Clients

Mobile

• GitNex (repo) - Android client for Forgejo and Gitea (Android – GPL)
• 👻 GitTouch - Mobile client for Forgejo, Gitea, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket (Android, iOS – Apache)

Command-line

• forgejo-curl - a thin curl wrapper that helps with Forgejo authentication
• tea - the official Gitea CLI client, works with Forgejo (cross-platform – MIT)

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

• Ansible playbook - Deploy Forgejo & Woodpecker, depends on related Enough Community playbooks.
• Terraform & Ansible playbook - Deploy Forgejo, Minio, Nginx & Woodpecker in the cloud via Docker Compose, depends on related geerlingguy playbooks.

Monitoring

• Monitoring plugin to check Forgejo instance upgrade status has the sources and is published in the Icinga exchange repository.

Bots

• gitcat - Python script that allows sign-up to a Forgejo instance to all local users of a Mastodon server. (Python - GPLv3)
• Renovate - Dependency update tool (similar to dependabot) with Forgejo support. (TypeScript - AGPLv3)

Scripts

• github2gitea/github2forgejo - Bash script that creates mirrors for various GitHub resources like orgs, users and starred repos (incl. private repos). (Bash - AGPLv3)
• Enhancements for Forgejo - Violentmonkey userscript that adds minor UX improvements to the web UI. (JavaScript - MIT)

Package deployment

• lein-forgejo-wagon - Leiningen plugin for deployment and downloading of JARs in Maven repositories hosted on Forgejo packages.

API clients

• Cyborus/forgejo-api - Rust crate to interact with the Forgejo API (Rust - Apache or MIT)
• harabat/pyforgejo - A client library for accessing the Forgejo API (Python - MIT)

References

Noteworthy news, articles and information about Forgejo.

Articles

• Wikipedia DE
• Wikidata

Videos

• Brodie Robertson on the Open Letter - a 15-minute video about the Open Letter that led to the creation of Forgejo a few weeks later

Maintainers

If you have questions or feedback regarding this list, then please create an Issue in our tracker, and optionally @mention one or more of our maintainers:

• @caesar
• @crystal
• @Ryuno-Ki

Contributors

With delight we present you some of our delightful contributors (please add yourself if you are missing).

License

To the extent possible under law, the maintainers and other contributors have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.