Being able to create issues and discuss merge requests on various source hosting sites without having to create an account on each would be a huge step forward! Especially since M$ has taken over Github and is well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.
If this isn't Github already, what is?
I don't think anything is yet, because thankfully interop and decentralization are core design principles of git itself. But it does become more centralized the more parts of the workflow we move to these platforms, like project planning, reviews and build processes. We are not at the point where you can't reasonably use anything but GH, but that's definitely M$'s goal, and we're getting closer imo.
Hold on, are we trying to decentralize an intentionally-centralized point for an already decentralized source versioning system? 😅
Not quite.
A project's repo would still be in one centralized location, like gitlab.com. But you'd no longer need an account on gitlab.com to make a pull request.
He's saying Git is already decentralized, GitLab isn't.
A project using mailing lists for development can already receive patches from (pretty much) any mail server (while still having a central Git repo).
It's kinda surprising it took this long for this to come to Git "forges" TBH.
afaik, PRs arent decentralized as they arent git features, as such so far you need an account on the same git-platform e.g. github to be able to use such features.
Having such features decentralized would be huge.
I don't think of GitLab as super centralized (compared to GitHub) because you can run your own instance. Communication between GitLab instances would be huge
That's nice, Gitlab. Now do RSS feeds.
You're looking for Forejo or Gitea
This is what I like about the fediverse
We're getting ActivityPub support before first party SaaS/hosted GitLab on a custom domain 😭