forgejo/CONTRIBUTING/GOVERNANCE.md

# Governance

## Codeberg e.V. custodian of the domains

The Forgejo [domains](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/issues/41) are owned by the democratic non-profit dedicated to Free Software [Codeberg e.V.](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws.md). Forgejo is therefore ultimately under the control of Codeberg e.V. and its governance. However, although Codeberg e.V. is committed to use and host Forgejo, it is expected that Forgejo defines its own governance, in a way that is compatible with the Codeberg e.V. governance.

## Forgejo Governance

Forgejo was bootstraped in November 2022 and [defined its governance](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/src/branch/main/README.md) in the following months.
[DOCS] CONTRIBUTING Refs: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/8 Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/153 Refs: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/123 Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/299 (cherry picked from commit 08dcef0c8cc9cdf5d786a925f18c1ec0cf3364da) [DOCS] CONTRIBUTING/RELEASE: https://forgejo.org/docs/admin Because the version is not displayed on the landing page of Forgejo, there cannot be a link to a versionned documentation. There must exist a link that points to the latest version on the website for the forgejo instance to display. Better but more complicated approaches could be to: * Embed the documentation in Forgejo * Allow the admin to not display the help * Allow the admin to display a versionned help or not (cherry picked from commit 83cc38923935dcc7edca22756d6fc10988a58540) (cherry picked from commit 5df52b8a4f6ebd184999a19dd10138a8e3980869) (cherry picked from commit 9a66b3d70b6e7d2a3ee146d3708d48d8f9bfe305) [DOCS] CONTRIBUTING/RELEASE: reminder to update FORGEJO_VERSION (cherry picked from commit 2a4d0bd164e55fc981d9437d8220a9c1e00ca59b) (cherry picked from commit d68576ba6762f4af2ed8133fe123fa84c136a90c) [DOCS] CONTRIBUTING: updates * Remove obsolete description of the well being & moderation team and replace them with a link to the moderation email. * Remove description of the governance process and replace with a link to the governance readme that did not exist at the time. * Add links to the Forgejo documentation (cherry picked from commit df749da27225ee13b5e00b689b397b24afebd044) (cherry picked from commit 4da39128c50e5e754f1404a5b79669a8218344be) (cherry picked from commit f442ca6f4032bbd61185e488e5a513f4e4264559) (cherry picked from commit 031928c447e4cbc293de03f6befbba05691810fc) 2022-12-17 14:06:28 +01:00			`# Governance`

			`## Codeberg e.V. custodian of the domains`

			`The Forgejo [domains](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/issues/41) are owned by the democratic non-profit dedicated to Free Software [Codeberg e.V.](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws.md). Forgejo is therefore ultimately under the control of Codeberg e.V. and its governance. However, although Codeberg e.V. is committed to use and host Forgejo, it is expected that Forgejo defines its own governance, in a way that is compatible with the Codeberg e.V. governance.`

			`## Forgejo Governance`

			`Forgejo was bootstraped in November 2022 and [defined its governance](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/src/branch/main/README.md) in the following months.`