*Gogs* ("Go Git Service") is a web-based source-code management system for Git
repositories. It was initiated in February, 2014^<<1>>^ by Jiahua Chen (also
known as `unknwon`^<<2>>^) and Lunny Xiao (also known as `lunny`^<<3>>^) with
the goal of building a free, self-hostable clone of GitHub^<<4>>^.
It is written in Go and is released under the link:licenses/MIT[MIT] license.

= Controversy and Gitea fork

The development of Gogs slowed down in 2015 and Jiahua, the sole person with
write access to the Gogs repository, stopped merging pull requests. This
prolonged inactivity sparked doubts about the future of the project^<<5>><<6>>^
and culminated with the creation of a fork called `go-gitea`. When Jiahua was
back, however, `go-gitea` was merged to Gogs and the development of the fork
stopped. One year later, in 2016, the situation repeated. For this reason some
of the Gogs contributors who grew frustrated with the management of the project^<<7>>^
decided to continue the work on `go-gitea`^<<8>>^. The fork was later renamed
link:Gitea_(software)[Gitea].

= See also

- link:Gitea_(software)[Gitea], a fork of Gogs
- link:NotABug.org[NotABug]

= References

[[[1]]] https://github.com/gogs/gogs/commit/475e3471b4e8da8776fe7e66a3390c8a30c19f08 +
[[[2]]] https://about.me/unknwon +
[[[3]]] http://lunny.info +
[[[4]]] https://github.com/gogs/gogs/commit/4836fea8767c38f175f59f8f66579e76fe6354f5 +
[[[5]]] https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/1304 +
[[[6]]] https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/1363 +
[[[7]]] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/99 +
[[[8]]] https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/

= External links

- link:https://github.com/gogs/gogs[Official repository] on GitHub
- link:https://gogs.io/[Official website] at gogs.io
- link:https://try.gogs.io[Demo instance] at try.gogs.io
