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It is important for free software to use free software infrastructure (drewdevault.com)

submitted 11 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

I have no idea how this wasn't a lower hanging fruit. If theres one social service I want federated, its a git server.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago

These are large existing code-bases that where developed without federation in mind. Gitlab also started working on AP federation, but like with Forgejo it looks like a multi-year project that it involves a lot of refactoring of the code.

[-] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I suppose I meant so far as priorities, I wasn't clear. Hosting OSS seems like it would be one of the first things to federate imo.

[-] ViaFedi@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

A central search engine would be a great start. Search across gitlab, github, codeberg etc.

[-] Spedwell@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

What even is federation in the context of a distributed vcs like Git? Does it mean federation of the typical dev ops tools (issues, PRs, etc.)?

[-] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Exactly that!

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Well, I mean, it's been like that from the beginning. You don't open a pull request to the Linux kernel through a web UI, you tell git to send Linus an email with your changes.