There were many positive changes, but what the fuck happens with all the breakages? Reserving usernames and such.

Also https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/17688

   "I want to use a regex to filter for valid mail addresses"
   "There is a function for that why not use that?"
   "Invisible unicode characters!"
   "That's not a problem in automatic mail verification"
   *ignore everyone*
   *push*
   *pull*

Meanwhile https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/19852 is still open

foepys

I witnessed the split of gogs and gitea and while the maintainer of gogs was indeed rarely active and merged PRs very slowly, they at least examined the code and made a proper review with suggestions.

The gitea guys wanted to move a lot faster and in the process neglected quite a bit of code review and product planning. Apparently this continues to this day as evidenced by the PR you linked.

mvelbaum

This, and the many trivial CVEs that were discovered in Gitea made me look for alternatives. I think that right now the best free and OSS solution is https://github.com/theonedev/onedev. It even has CI/CD built-in which is cool!