Codeberg
Open-source software development services organization
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Codeberg e.V. is a German nonprofit organization specialized in open-source software development services.
- Software forge (Forgejo)
- Static page hosting (Codeberg Pages)
- Collaborative translation (Weblate)
- CI/CD (Woodpecker & Forgejo Actions)
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| Formation | September 2018 |
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| Type | Eingetragener Verein |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
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| Membership | 1100+[1] |
| Expenses | €1050 per month (2022)[2] |
| Staff | 2 part-time (2025)[3] |
| Website | codeberg |
Services
Codeberg provides an online collaborative software development environment with Forgejo, static page hosting with Codeberg Pages, a collaborative translation web platform with Weblate and CI/CD with Woodpecker CI and Forgejo Actions.
Development of the Gitea-fork Forgejo also takes place on Codeberg.[4]
History
Codeberg e.V. was established in September 2018 with 7 founding members and launched as Codeberg.org in January 2019.[5] The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members' concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[6] After one month, the Codeberg e.V. organization had 25 members, and Codeberg.org hosted 333 repositories with 379 users.[7]
In 2022, the Software Freedom Conservancy started its "Give up GitHub"-campaign, which included Codeberg as one of the suggested alternatives.[8] In December 2022, Codeberg launched Forgejo, a fork of Gitea, in response to a controversial change in direction of the Gitea Project, initially synchronising all changes which occurred on Gitea.[9] In February 2024, the Forgejo project decided to cease synchronising with changes from Gitea,[10] citing reduced maintenance overhead and stability reasons.
As of November 2025, Codeberg hosts over 300,000 repositories and has more than 200,000 registered user accounts and its members had also grown to 1208.[4][3]
In recent years, multiple large open source projects have migrated from GitHub to Codeberg: At the end of November 2025, the Zig programming language announced moving to Codeberg as "GitHub no longer demonstrates commitment to engineering excellence." [11] Around the same time, the founder of Dillo announced moving away from GitHub, including setting up a mirror on Codeberg, due to GitHub's "over-focusing on LLMs and generative AI".[11] In February 2026, Gentoo announced its presence on Codeberg, citing GitHub’s attempts to force them to use Copilot as the motivation for the move.[12]
