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+date: "2016-11-21T11:00:00+02:00"
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+title: "Welcome to Gitea"
+weight: 10
+type: "index"
+---
+
+Gitea is a community fork of the popular self-hosted Git service Gogs.
+
+We're a growing group of former Gogs users and contributors who found
+the single-maintainer management model of Gogs frustrating and thus
+decided to make an effort to build a more open and faster development
+model.
+
+This happened not before trying to convince @Unknwon about giving
+write permissions to more people, among the community. He rightly
+considered Gogs his pet project and didn't want to let it grow
+outside of him, thus a fork was necessary in order to set that
+code effectively free.
+
+As Kahlil Gibran used to say:
+
+    Your children are not your children.
+    They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
+    They come through you but not from you,
+    And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
+
+Gitea has 3 owners which are elected yearly and an open number
+of maintainers who decide with a simple voting model which
+contributions get accepted and who will play the owner role.
+Anyone with at least 4 contributions accepted can apply to become
+a maintainer.
+
+In the first 3 weeks from the fork date (~Nov 1st) Gitea got
+94 pull requests merged and 23 issues closed. Among management
+issues and cleanups, 21 bugs were closed (an average of a bug a day).
+Anoher 23 PR are pending merges, many of which are just waiting
+for 1.0.0 to be released as new features will start appearing
+in 1.1.0.
+
+We invite everyone to join the effort and help continue building
+the next generation of self-hosted Git service.
+
+Gitea: git with a cup of tea - http://gitea.io