Gitee

Gitee
Website type
Available in
HeadquartersChina
Area servedWorldwide, mainly China
OwnerOSChina
IndustrySoftware
Websitegitee.com Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Users8 million
Launched2013
Current statusOnline

Gitee (simplified Chinese: 码云; traditional Chinese: 碼雲; pinyin: Mǎyún) is a proprietary online forge that allows software version control using Git and is intended primarily for the hosting of open source software. It is a fork of Gitea and uses a compatible API. It was launched by Shenzhen-based OSChina in 2013. Gitee claims to have more than 10 million repositories and 5 million users.

Gitee was chosen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government to make an independent, open-source code hosting platform for China.

Censorship

On 18 May 2022, Gitee announced all code will be manually reviewed before public availability. Gitee did not specify a reason for the change, though there was widespread speculation it was ordered by the Chinese government amid increasing online censorship in China.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About us". Gitee (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Borak, Masha (28 August 2020). "China pins its hopes on Gitee as an open source alternative to Microsoft's Github amid US tech tensions". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 Liao, Rita (21 August 2020). "China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  4. 1 2 "China's GitHub-like source code platform gets less open with manual reviews". South China Morning Post. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Gitee 开源库将先审再上线" (in Chinese (China)). 19 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  6. ↑ Yang, Zeyi (30 May 2022). "How censoring China's open-source coders might backfire". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 1 July 2022.