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I've been waiting for that progress to materialise. Although I really want it to work, it has taken so long now that I doubt it is taken seriously and thus I start to doubt they will keep maintaining it once it does land.
For most commercial software you don't need federation though, so for most you can just spin up your own instance.
It is taken very seriously. There are still monthly reports, also the usual monthly updates specifically mention federation and stuff that was done that month like federated following of users and HTTP signature validation.
what i've yet to understand is why nothing seems to have ever shipped, not even a trace of federation.
it's like every time someone attempts it they refuse to make an MVP, instead they work and work until it's 100% ready and just before finishing they have a heart attack like in monty python and the holy grail
what i would do is take an existing project and start by just federating a simple view of repositories, along with likes. Just get something out there so people can see things are happening.
Fully agree. I presume it's way harder than it seems. https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md shows some things as done and many as WIP. Perhaps there's a demo server somewhere with which we can experiment?