Change the name please. Most have no good idea how to pronounce it.
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)
Edit: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 [0]
[0] Linked from https://forgejo.org/faq/#where-does-the-name-come-from
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?
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.
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Totally agree. Most[0] don't even use English ever in their life.
I think that's easy to say out loud, but it'd be strange to have a spanglish product name for an international audience.
If you _really_ find the name problematical, fork it and rename it yourself. Though accept that you will be volunteering yourself for some admin and comms burden if anyone else uses your fork.
I can understand complaints about conflicting names, blatantly offensive names, and so forth, but names that could be pronounced more than one way? Nope.