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So GitLab, Gitea, Fossil, ForgeJo, OneDev... the field is so balkanized, and so many of them are almost kinda sorta compatible with each other but not quite. The choices are intimidating because there's always the fear that you'll invest in a platform created by a small team and then be left orphaned if it fails.

...

So, how do you pronounce Forgejo? Forge-Joe? Forjei-ho? Forjei-o?



| Forgejo (pronounced /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/) is inspired by forĝejo, the Esperanto word for forge.

https://forgejo.org/faq/

They also have a recording posted: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4


If you need a recording of the pronunciation I think you've failed basic branding and marketing.

Also the pronunciation recording does not match how I would expect it to be spelled. Fordgeo is what I'm hearing


Oh, just like Linux? https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds...

I have a feeling that's not the best metric, but go off.


Who cares about marketing.

Nobody knows how to pronounce gitea either. Half of people pronounce it "gi-te-ah".


And let's not get started about the spelling vs pronunciation of LaTeX, NGINX, and Kubernetes.


Clarify? All of those have straightforward pronunciations and spellings, with maybe nginx's spelling the exception, but it's also very popular.


Wikipedia lists two pronunciations for LaTeX: "/ˈlɑːtɛk/ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek".

On top of those, I've also heard the k at the end be replaced with h, which would also be correct, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter)

The common pronunciation of latex /ˈleɪˌtɛks/ would be incorrect.

For Kubernetes, Wikipedia lists eight different pronunciations: /ˌk(j)uːbərˈnɛtɪs, -ˈneɪtɪs, -ˈneɪtiːz, -ˈnɛtiːz/, with the j after k being optional.

NGINX feels like the most straightforward out of these, even though it is rarely pronounced correctly.

As for myself, I like to call it NG Inks, as in next-gen tattoos, at least whenever I hear it pronounced wrong :)


Yeah, using an Esperanto word, and in particular one where the letters have very different pronounciation from English (the J is pronounced like Y and the E is not silent) seems like a bad move given that realistically the software world is in English.


> different pronounciation from English

Just like .gif, yeah.


It's a niche product targeting nerds. Ideally nerds that have heard of Esperanto, and maybe even dabbled with it.


> If you need a recording of the pronunciation I think you've failed basic branding and marketing.

Their landing page has this to say:

> Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.

This tells me basically nothing, at least nothing useful in terms of what they are offering.


>> Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.

>This tells me basically nothing, at least nothing useful in terms of what they are offering.

What else could they add to be clearer?

* Software forge

* Self hosted

* Lightweight

I find these terms to be clear.


People who are not already using one of the non-Github forges have no clue what a "software forge" is. It's a very niche bit of jargon, and these days most developers are not even familiar with sourceforge.


What is a lightweight software forge?


What is a "software forge"?


I really had no idea that it was not a very clear term.

I was wrong.

Golly, I learnt something!


Sounded like "for jail" to me.


So, non-silent E and the J is pronounced as a Y.

....

Yeah, everybody's gonna call it Forge Joe.


> So GitLab, Gitea, Fossil, ForgeJo, OneDev... the field is so balkanized

Which ones are compatible with GitHub actions? To me that is the most important aspect. So much is done with those and I really don't want to relearn.


You can use Woodpecker and not be tied to Github


Gitea and forgejo don't have CI/CD at all.


> Gitea ... don't have CI/CD at all.

That seems to be no longer the case?

>> Starting with Gitea 1.19, Gitea Actions are available as a built-in CI/CD solution. ... It is similar and compatible to GitHub Actions, and its name is inspired by it too.

https://docs.gitea.com/next/usage/actions/overview

Which seems to have been released almost a year ago

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.19.0/


Ah I did not look at gitea for about 2 years. That's cool!


Forgejo has experimental CI/CD

https://forgejo.org/2023-02-27-forgejo-actions/

They make no guarantee of compatibility with Github Actions but they seem to be aiming for it based on the syntax.


https://forgejo.org/docs/v1.20/user/actions/

https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/overview

Both have “Actions” that are act based and very similar to GitHub Actions and offers some compatibility.


Ohhh then I'm out of date.


Maybe like "forgo"?


What's balkanized here? Theres GitHub, theres GitLab, the other ones don't exist.




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