One year into the war, your help is still needed

(This text has been written a rather long time ago, with discussions starting in Spring 2023. It took a while to draft, have Codeberg e. V. members vote and to finally publish it. The latter was also due to other more important things in our work queue. We apologize for …

Category: Letters from Codeberg

Letter from Codeberg: November 2023

(This is a stripped-down version of the news letters sent out to members of Codeberg e.V. – not member of the non-profit association yet? Consider joining it!)

Dear Codeberg e.V. Members and supporters!

Let's take some time to look at what we have achieved in the past months, and …

Category: Letters from Codeberg

Letter from Codeberg: September 2023

(This is a stripped-down version of the news letters sent out to members of Codeberg e.V. – not member of the non-profit association yet? Consider joining it!)

Dear Codeberg e.V. Members and supporters!

Let's take some time to look at what we have achieved in the past months, and …

Category: Letters from Codeberg

The permissions for your scoped access tokens might change on Thursday

Dear Codeberg users,

we are excited to deploy Forgejo v1.20 to production, bringing tons of new features, bugfixes and improvements.

However, there's a caveat with scoped access tokens: They will change, eventually granting more permissions than expected. Please read on if you use them. We additionally email all users …

Category: Announcement

Letter from Codeberg: May 2023

(This is a stripped-down version of the news letters sent out to members of Codeberg e.V. – not member of the non-profit association yet? Consider joining it!)

Dear Codeberg e.V. Members and supporters!

Our Annual Assembly for Codeberg e.V. legal members is nearing (May 21). We now share …

Category: Letters from Codeberg

Letter from Codeberg: Happy New Year!

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Dear Codeberg e.V. Members and supporters!

The past months at Codeberg have been intense, and it's overdue to share some updates.

Organisational …

Category: Letters from Codeberg

The hardest scaling issue

If you want to know more about our current technical scaling issues: Rest assured that we are working hard on it. Read on to learn why this is not as fast as you might expect.

When people like me talk about scaling, it is pretty obvious what we are referring …

Category: Contrib

How blocklists prevent the internet to be decentralized – and safe.

TL;DR: We are currently experiencing recurring malware upload waves, incurring pain to volunteers and disruptions for users we can do very little about. Some thoughts to start a discussion.

Safety on the Internet is crucial. At Codeberg, we are working towards this goal every day. Moderating a platform can …

Category: Contrib

Codeberg launches Forgejo

In October 2022, the Gitea Ltd for-profit company took over the Gitea project. Brodie Robertson clearly explains the trust issues created by a move that took the entire community by surprise, including the Codeberg presidium and members. This situation was worrisome, and sad. We should not fight our collaborators and …

Category: Announcement

Codeberg is moving ... and what this means to you

Codeberg is moving, and you can imagine, moving a mountain takes time and effort, and might have a rocky road.

TL;DR: Codeberg might suffer from decreased performance, and smaller downtimes from Monday (Nov 14) to Wednesday (Nov 16). Final migration will require a short period of planned downtime on …

Category: Announcement