So when are we going to collectively suck it up and write a federated GitHub-like thing? I mean, we've been needing it for years and just nobody's gotten around to it.
@icefox Relatedly: folks on Hubzilla talking about a federated GitHub -- https://hub.disroot.org/channel/muppeth/&mid=e244f9c32e23e5aaf774e27a03c38718f90391746d17b9205a23747137171139@hub.disroot.org
@icefox I mean... Git is decentralized. And there's Gitlab
@charlescodes Git is decentralized but has no notification system and API to let programs using git to communicate with each other in a consistent fashion. Git's own decentralization model is built around emailing patches around. Which is fine, but very primitive compared to Github.
Gitlab doesn't federate, afaik. If I run my own gitlab server and want to make a PR to your Gitlab server, I need to make an account on your server.
@icefox sure there is, git pull git:// or git pull ssh://... Just like passing around patchsets, but different.
Yes, there is not a decentralized bug tracker. That might be cool.
@icefox gitea has been working on that for some years now, but they don't seem to have enough contributors to make any decent progress (though the github drama could fix that)
@jelle_dc It does seem the best bet for it, yes.
@icefox This idea I like much.
(Along with several other federation-related projects, such as the much-discussed mastofork.)
Is there, like, a Federation Coders Federation or something? Like, "a group of coders and other people willing to put in semi-regular hours towards building federated software"?
I'm already in a group whose mission is something along the lines of "co-operatizing important web services"; there's some significant overlap there, but it's not quite the same thing...