Dear GitHub, why do you do this to me?!! after 10years!? we had such a good time and now?! now you just take the Microsoft money... and I always believed you're different!
@bumi That decision was made when they took the $100M in order to grow like crazy. I'm actually glad about this, because there was a bit of a collective denial about the fact that we build entire OSS ecosystems upon a single startup's proprietary product.
@bob @bumi Unfortunately, the core issue for OSS projects remains the network for people finding your stuff and becoming contributors without friction. Private projects are a non-issue imo. I think we need to solve federated forking and merge requests, including code comments etc., unless we all want to lose valuable contributions.
@bob @bumi @raucao I am (or at least was) a huge fan of p2p but I've got disillusioned. They either don't get adopted or they try to solve social and economic problems with software. Decentralized services like Mastodon seems to be more successful. Maybe a code hosting solution based on ActivityPub is the way to go. Then you can connect services run by enterprises, private persons and organizations to a code-hosting-net.
@juh Check my timeline. And upvote the GitLab issue plz. :)
@raucao Do I need an account to do this?
@juh Unfortunately yes. If you don't have one, nevermind.
WebAuthn when browsers implement it would go a huge way towards solving these issues. Then you'd mostly lose the sign up step required by these various sites before you contribute.
But federated pulls and forking would be nice too.
I'd probably want it so that when you click on a git+ssh link it causes the repository to be cloned elsewhere, so that when you hit push that puts the commits in a staging branch and prompts you to describe your pull request.
@alcinnz @raucao @bob @bumi
There are several issues on several git server software that are discussing this issue:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184
https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/3131
I thinks this will be amazing for the future of OSS.
@raucao @bob @bumi Isn't #GitLab working on #ActivityPub integration?
@grainloom Not yet, but plz upvote: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013