We all know who’s the real steward of free software and federation

*smiles in anticipation*

legit had to draw the vector logo of Gogs for this, smh

edit: actually… it already exists, oopsie (ᵕ—ᴗ—) smh my head

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    472·
    8 months ago

    Gitlab is also thinking of going to federation. It will be interesting as git is already a federated protocol, now our prs, follows, stars, ect will also be federated between different instances.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      361·
      8 months ago

      already a defeated protocol

      Once again, SVN is victorious.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      14·
      8 months ago

      I recently looked this up again and it looks like the person who started the federation work in Gitlab got a new job and isn’t really working on it any more. So sadly this seems to be on hold as Gitlab the company is not themselves investing staff-hours into federation.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        That is too bad, but also at the same time I kind of lost hope for Gitlab after they jumped on the AI hype train, if they’re going full corporate they probably wouldn’t be a good candidate for Federation (both because other people would defederate them and because they wouldn’t want to because competition).

      • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’ve read in some issue tracker that the gitbal guys aren’t really interested in federation. It makes sense, they are a business. Seems that having push mirrors is a premium feature, so federation would go contrary.

        I’d love to be proven wrong though.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      I want all that so bad

      Gitlab is also thinking of going to federation.

      I hope Gitlab has helped the contributor out in their work, last I heard it was just one person on it

        • kautau@lemmy.world
          7·
          8 months ago

          Yeah it’s called open core and it’s basically every open source SaaS product where you can either:

          1. self host the open source product
          2. pay for their (usually better) cloud product which has features the open source product doesnt
          3. self host the cloud product (usually labelled as “enterprise” and “contact sales”)

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      Even a single security fuckup on the scale of GitLab’s mistake earlier this year means I will not consider using their codebase.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        1·
        8 months ago

        Good tip! Never gave it a better look. It solves a big issue I have, with centralized power. Local first is great!

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Any more git bundles you should care about?

      That’s a pretty decent list, I actually can’t remember many more, maybe I’d add Onedev, but I’ve been skeptical about it since it’s gone more corporate, so idk.

      Actually, are these 2 forks of another, when?

      To be fair, the meme isn’t exactly accurate, because the forking relationship is this:

      Gogs
└ Gitea
    └ Forgejo

      But the colors just fit too good not to use this meme, so there you go lol

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      42·
      8 months ago

      Gogs started it originally, but was forked into Gitea years ago and hasn’t seen much development since.

      Forgejo is a newer fork of Gitea after the IP rights to Gitea were (secretly) transferred to a for-profit company and some of the developers started to turn the project into a commercial open-core one.

  • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
    111·
    8 months ago

    Sourcehut is already federated! The workflows use a combination of email (which is federated), and git clones (which are decentralized)

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago
      uninformed comment

      That’s fine in and of itself, but, personally, I could never bring myself to use a forge which isn’t fully featured and easy to use.

      (rant)

      Sourcehut is just so counterintuitive to me and I shrug every time I see a project actually using it, I feel like many wouldn’t even consider making contributions unless they were very motivated. To the average person, it just looks like an unwelcoming experience, especially for the email centric focus, like, why should I switch to another application just to open an issue? At least integrate it with the the web UI, like idk, make it a specialized email client for the platform, so I don’t have to juggle multiple things.

      Don’t get me wrong tho, it’s the closest we have to the bare git workflow of the “before times” with a bit more accessibility on top, it’s not bad, but in a way these new web forges have spoiled us devs into relying on cohesive web services which happen to have vendor lock-in, but that can change and it is slowly doing so

      edit: deleted for inaccurate info, don’t consider my dumb rant O.o

      I found it unfamiliar in the few times I saw it, but maybe it’s worth giving a try

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Forgejo is a community owned fork of Gitea which is privately owned.

      One day we can expect Gitea to pull the license for money as we see almost every private company do. Although I do hope they don’t.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Is this official? It’d be strange if it were only hosted on a random cloud storage provider

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      16·
      8 months ago

      Not yet, but they are the ones actively working on it, so it will likely arrive there first. Still a few months out though.