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README.md

Sustainability

Forgejo depends on resources to keep going in a durable way and the most precious is the time people spend working on it. Most volunteers may not be inclined to account for the number of hours they spent working on organizing a videoconference, discussing a particular governance issue or implementing a feature. But those who are provide a valuable insight regarding the durability of Forgejo: when cumulated with the time spent by paid staff working alongside them, it is good approximation of what it takes for Forgejo to be sustainable.

For instance when one person is paid to spend four weeks working on a feature alongside a volunteer, that's at least 300 hours of work total, probably more if they are passionate and work long hours. In 2022 the salary of the person who is paid will vary between 5,000€ and 10,000€ depending on the country they live in and their level of expertise. And while volunteers are, by definition, not paid for their contribution it does not mean their time is less valuable.

All other costs running Forgejo are comparatively much lower, just like any other Free Software project. The hosting costs rely on donations to Codeberg e.V. which keep Codeberg.org running. Donations to Forgejo could cover everything else: hardware, travel costs etc.

Forgejo resources per year

This is a manually maintained record of the resources dedicated to Forgejo updated at least once a year.

2025

2024

Grants

21,500€ from Codeberg e.V. of which 4630€ have not been claimed by the end of the year.
- sources:
  - 20,000€ from NLNet grants in 2023
  - ~430€ explicitly dedicated to Forgejo in 2023, part of it was donated by disroot
  - ~1,070€ added from Codeberg's general funding
- expenses:
  - employee delegation (see below)
19,000€ from NLNet 2022-12-035
- 10,000€ volunteer work by https://codeberg.org/earl-warren received by Codeberg e.V.
- 4,000€ volunteer work by https://codeberg.org/fnetx received by Codeberg e.V.¹
- 5,000€ to https://codeberg.org/oliverpool

Volunteer

~1400 hours (about 30h a week on average between January to December inclusive) https://codeberg.org/earl-warren https://codeberg.org/earl-warren?tab=activity
~780 hours (about 15h a week on average) https://codeberg.org/fnetx

Employee delegation

5,600€ (total of 20 days at the rate of 280€ per day) https://codeberg.org/dachary/ paid by https://easter-eggs.com
https://codeberg.org/algernon (worklog)
- 166 hours under contract by Codeberg e.V.
- Implementation of forgejo#1316 sponsored by @glts.

Hardware

250€ (December) Hetzner hardware, paid for by https://codeberg.org/viceice - https://liberapay.com/viceice/
4,200€ (350€ per month) KVM virtual machine 16 threads, 64GB RAM, 1TB DRBD volume backed by SSD, 1 IPv4 provided at no cost by https://www.octopuce.fr
around 2,500€ (January to November included) Hetzner hardware hosting for all hetzner*.forgejo.org machines, paid for by https://codeberg.org/earl-warren/

2023

Grants

3,600€ to support Forgejo allocated by Codeberg e.V., of which only € 1260 were claimed (see Employee delegation)
50,000€ to work on the release process and the codebase for the benefit of Codeberg e.V., https://codeberg.org/oliverpool, https://codeberg.org/crystal, https://codeberg.org/caesar. This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.
- 20,000€ volunteer work by https://codeberg.org/earl-warren received by Codeberg e.V.

Hardware

640.80€ (total of 106.80 per month from July to December inclusive) physical machine 32 threads, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD, 1 IPv4 hosted at https://www.hetzner.com/ paid for by https://codeberg.org/dachary/
3,150€ (total of 350€ per month from April to December inclusive) KVM virtual machine 16 threads, 64GB RAM, 1TB DRBD volume backed by SSD, 1 IPv4 provided at no cost by https://www.octopuce.fr
200€ (total of 100€ per month from November to December inclusive) hetzner{02,03}
600€ (total of 100€ per month from July to December inclusive) hetzner01