Comment by tboerger

As already said, nearly all people in the org are former Gogs contributors, the owners have been elected by the other people who joined the effort, everybody who has contributed 4 pull requests can join the maintainers team of gitea, the owners will be elected every year by the community, EVERY scripting for the infrastructure and the website and so on its entirely published. The only thing that is a secret shared between the current owners are the secrets for the services like github tokens, github oauth or email credentials. Everything else is open, accessible by everybody.