Reply from OTF:
Upon evaluation of your proposal, we have decided to solicit more information from you before making a determination. We have been reviewing many projects and appreciate your patience during the process.
At the end of this message, we have provided feedback from our determination for your review. Please provide your responses by updating your proposal no later than July 21, 2023.
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The external reviewers very much appreciate the concept of F3 and providing FLOSS alternatives to commercial software. They recommend that you include some public facing way like a wiki for potential novice users to read about the project and ask questions.
They were also questions about how F3 would be integrated into the Gitea codebase. Do you have a relationship with Gitea that would make this process easier?
In addition please update the total budget amount in the proposal to reflect our earlier communication.
I replied the following:
Hi [redacted],
Thanks for your quick reply.
There has been one major development in the past year that creates a context more favorable to F3. I have reviewed and updated the initial proposal to factor in the newly created software forge https://forgejo.org. It is derived from Gitea and I participate in its development since its inception in October 2022. It has a user base of a little over 50,000 and a few hundred instances have been installed. This is not very large but it is an excellent context to field test F3.
They were also questions about how F3 would be integrated into the Gitea codebase. Do you have a relationship with Gitea that would make this process easier?
The primary target for F3 changed from Gitea to Forgejo. There is a strong commitment from the Forgejo developer community to release F3 as part of Forgejo as soon as it is ready. Because Forgejo is fully compatible with Gitea, will be as simple as proposing a pull request to enable F3 in Gitea once it has matured.
The proposal was updated to clarify that.
They recommend that you include some public facing way like a wiki for potential novice users to read about the project and ask questions.
There will be an integrated wiki in the project as well as a discourse based forum for the community (experts or novices alike) to engage and communicate. I did not add that explicitly in the proposal, maybe I should have?
Thanks for your support,
Sincerely
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