It's Esperanto, minus the diacritic on the "g" -- the word is forĝejo, meaning a place where things are forged (metalworking, not false documents). It's basically pronounced like the English word "forge" then "eh" then "yo".

Quite a lot of things are named in Esperanto like the cryptocoin Monero (coin), the watch brand Movado (movement), the last name of George Soros (will-soar, I'm not joking; his Esperantist father literally changed his family name to that)

There is a soundbite somewhere where the authors say it's pronounced for-jay-oh.

Edit: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 [0]

[0] Linked from https://forgejo.org/faq/#where-does-the-name-come-from

I’m pronouncing it “Gitea but the other one”, which still rolls off the tongue better.

> Gitea but the other one

Wouldn't that also be Gogs? https://gogs.io/

I remember when that one was what a lot of people were looking into, before the Gitea fork happened. It's odd to see how this has happened yet again, but I guess is a good thing that it's even possible in the first place, if there are indeed differing values and goals?

Fair point, and I used Gogs for a while before switching to Gitea.

Hate to be that guy who "ignores" the huge amount of effort and people's free time just to "bitch" about the name, but...

the name is horrible and that has real impact because people can't pronounce it, don't like it and forget about it. So the project will have low adoption and sooner or later will be abandoned. Name is only a factor, but IS a factor.

The devs don't owe anything, I'm just asking for a consideration.

> has real impact because people can't pronounce it, don't like it and forget about it.

Forgetto

> Most have no good idea how to pronounce it.

Totally agree. Most[0] don't even use English ever in their life.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

That would be more compelling if their entire site and documentation wasn't in english, and if the word in question hadn't been pulled from esperanto, which I can safely say rather fewer people have ever used.

Forj-Jo I would say (and so does this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4OQMc1rIO4)

I always thought it was "for-jeh-ho", using the Spanish pronunciation for the 'j'

I think that's easy to say out loud, but it'd be strange to have a spanglish product name for an international audience.

yeah, [ɾx] is a digraph completely alien to english phonotactics

Yeah, it's not real critique unless you feel the need to fork the project!!11

My main point is that choosing about a name you aren't sure how to pronounce isn't a real critique. If such a name is going to put someone off, did they care about the project in the first place or are they just looking for something to complain about? I shouldn't have muddled the waters with the fork comment.

I can understand complaints about conflicting names, blatantly offensive names, and so forth, but names that could be pronounced more than one way? Nope.

I know it's not intended, but I call it "for-ho".

Forge-joe?

I always read it as "For Joe". I'm not the target audience (wants to self manage infra outside of work) and only see the project mentioned here.

Forjane sound nice also, but better Forboth or why not Forgunowho?

sorry, Forget about it