Gitea 1.25.0 | 3D file previews, improved archive downloads, enhanced authentication, and more security, API and workflow upgrades like automatic repo forking and email notifications for actions

Is gitea not stable?

But how can community fork possibly be on par with funded developers?

3D File previews?? Who needs that?

someone's not familiar with the 3d-printer-building scene

I can recommend Forgejo, it's not overly complex in my opinion. It is what I would call "simple git server + decent web UI" for a home lab or VPN.

The reason Forgejo was forked was because of Gitea's focus IIRC, maybe it was stuff like having 3D file previews. It's not even the worst feature though, I can imagine it's quite helpful in projects with a focus on 3D data.

Edit: Just had a look at the reasoning behind forking from Gitea:

We started Forgejo in reaction to control of Gitea being taken away from the community by the newly-formed for-profit company Gitea Ltd without prior community consultation, and after an Open Letter to the Gitea project owners remained unanswered. The Forgejo project has two major objectives that drive our development and road map:

1. The community is in control, and ensures we develop to address community needs.
2. We will help liberate software development from the shackles of proprietary tools.

https://forgejo.org/2022-12-15-hello-forgejo/

Later they announced the hard fork, because

Simply put, the governance and development models of Gitea and Forgejo diverged over time, and so did their goals. Becoming a hard fork is the culmination of that divergence.

I use Forgejo at work. We have set it up on a server and it quickly became our main VCS server. Forgejo just sounds complex, once you install it(really simple setup), it is just... Git. You create your repos, you push your commits, and do all the normal git stuff with it.

You can even enable Forgejo Actions and have built-in Github Actions like CI for your repos, and it works surprisingly well.

Why overly complex? What do you mean?

Gitea is alright. It's a very well working git server.

Someone probably wanted the 3d preview and maybe it wasn't difficult. You could say integrating "gitea pages" would be a high priority but that doesn't mean that there can be side quests along the way. You can probably read the PR if you want to know why it's included

Anyone using a Version Control system to do 3d design work, if I was smart I would be using this for the stuff I design to 3d print. But I'm not so I just have directories full of STL and 3MF files with occasionally somewhat descriptive names. Oh or 3d artists working on games, videos etc. People who are doing architectural design? Just people with other random interests? I suck at staying organised but I gave Forgejo a go and as long as you follow the getting started guide and keep it on an internal network its pretty straightforward to get started, complexity goes up if you are wanting to use it externally or in more co.plicated scenarios I believe.

Maybe you are interested in radicle

You mean as a server os?