it is functioning like Open Source should, there was a disagreement in how the project was run so it gets forked
This used to be more common place when projects were run by people not companies. I wish the practice would come back we need more forks in Free Software
I use Gitea with Drone CI and it works pretty well: https://www.drone.io/
Some might also prefer the Woodpecker CI fork due to the license: https://woodpecker-ci.org/
I setup Drone as a part of my migration away from GitLab Omnibus and have no complaints so far: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-...
Here's the Drone example in particular: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/moving-from-gitlab-ci-to-d...
Gitlab is a crazy setup full of services, with elaborate interdependence, absurd hardware requirements, iffy performance, and all the lack of confidence on security that comes from this (and it only ever running if you use their docker images and don't touch anything).
But yeah, it got everything.
Upgrades have been painless. Doesn't tax the server.
Was using Gitea when that fork happened and didn't see a reason to migrate. Looked very much like poor communication on the behalf of Gitea causing a misunderstanding.