@espen github has an interface to attach comments to parts of commits, typically used during code review
@liw yeah well, good.
@n8 fine, the initial letter of all my software's English name is hereby ` (backtick)
(The closing backtick is optional but probably a good idea.)
@walruslifestyle sure, a little
It's a very familiar web UI to github refugees, running on your local computer and syncing everything, very nice.
Some scalability quirks (being fixed), and currently anyone can push to any repo on it, which is not necessarily a problem since you only see your friends and FOAF's pushes. Which is itself very different.
A very different approach with some potential.
@bhaugen well, @cwebber has talked about using https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/ in activitypub and the result looks a lot like ssb to me.
@cwebber btw, activitypub (or ssb) could be very very useful for the whole social network side of things, which is sorta kinda orthagonal to what I've been talking about.
(But we also know how hard it is to get social network traction, any this is all going to mostly blow over soon; the gitlab import graphs are predictably trailing off. So my optimisim is slight.)
@frd weird how that doesn't trigger my nationalism button like other flags would.. I'm probably just naive.
@frd ahh, I remember that look from last time :)
@liw idk, they're either the constant gratification we demand from the internet, or a useful discouragement from posting hot takes..
@ocdtrekkie Github wiki, gists, user pages are all stored in git repos. Rest isn't. I don't know about the equivilants on Gitlab.
Also, https://github-backup.branchable.com/ pulls all the data into a branch (and backs up all repos you star or fork); I wrote it 6 years ago partly to demonstrate feasibiity, partly to not lose information when the inevitable github backlash happened.
Pleased to see this pissed HN off. How you know you're onto something.
mastadon needs either throttling of notification bleeps, or it needs to use them to play 8-bit chiptunes. Just saying.
@cwebber @technomancy yes, activitypub could be useful for that, but it seems it would be easy to end up with data stored in activitypub messages themselves
(No PR inception needed, use a separate branch for the data with validation hooks, etc)
@technomancy it's a MVP: Simply markdown files stored next to the code, rendered and editable on a wiki and accepting anonymous git pushes that edit only the markdown files. Far from ideal, but it does not stop users from giving more feedback than I can keep up with.
@technomancy yes, 100%
@bhaugen woah sorry for the ambiguity, I mean a green check mark :) Correcting now
(and all my projects store their issues right alongside the code in git)
@technomancy no, *dozens* of people have found *different* ways, all non-interoperable. Which is why a github or a gitlab doing this and establishing a de-facto standard would be valuable.
(I have been active in the dist-bugs space for a decade or so.)
@technomancy like I say in the blog post, it neglects an pportunity.
Unless activitypub gets as much distributed power as git has.
(But, consuming data from a git repository and communicating it over activitypub would be fine.)
