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State of federation in git forges (lemmy.nocturnal.garden)
submitted 2 weeks ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm about to set up a new git forge for my own stuff. Most forges already have the basic functionality I want (nice ui for merge requests etc).

What I'm looking forward to is federation. Create a Pull request for a repository hosted on another instance without needing to create an account over there would be a game changer.

  • Gitea had some plans but I don't see anything happening since three years in their dedicated forum
  • Gitlab has a dedicated epic but some official said it's not a priority last year
  • Forgejo has a roadmap and a Federation section in each of their montly reports (latest). However, the roadmaps mentions that Federated PRs are in the far future.

From this it seems that Forgejo is the only one activetly working on Federation.

Anything I'm missing? Anyone involved in any of those willing to tell me more? Especially if all of them are working in a similar direction where not only decentralization but also federation (e.g. between Gitlab and Forgejo) is possible?

On a side note, I found the ForgeFed project which is an ActivityPub extension, not sure if any of the forges wants to implement this. Their example forge Vervis is not reachable.

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[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I guess git via mail would solve some of those problems. Maybe I'd just need to get used to it, but generally I prefer a web ui for those things, including Issue tracking etc - I know there's tools for that via email and there's good reasons to use it, but somehow it doesn't feel right to me. I'll give Drew's articles another look, thanks for posting.

[–] alexcleac@szmer.info 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The web ui with integration of email ecosystem for all those things are one of core selling points of https://sr.ht/

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed, not sure I want do host sourcehut though. Looks like a complicated setup and only supports Alpine but not (Docker) containers.