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Gitlab closed their epic for ActivityPub Integration - people aren't happy (gitlab.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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A single contributor (oelmekki) had started integrating ActivityPub into GitLab, which could have been a huge win for the source forge, but despite praising him for it GitLab didn't assign enough resources to help him out. Unsurprisingly oelmekki ran out of steam and now, a year or so later, Gitlab just closed the epic.

Comments have started coming in from the community (and customers) expressing their frustration with GitLab over the decision. The ticket was reopened but without an official communication.

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[–] Laser@feddit.org 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Gitlab is a product for enterprises which usually selfhost private repositories, I don't think they give a damn about community stuff.

Yeah there are paying customers that want this, but I don't think they see a business case, but rather a maintenance burden.

[–] brian@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

I feel like it's probably not a high priority, but the company I worked at that selfhosted gitlab was also paranoid about dependencies disappearing and so mirrored every repo they had a dep on.

I imagine that's not that rare of a situation and it would have been a nice qol kinda thing if we could have federated with the upstream and gotten a backup of issues and such and could do everything on the one platform. definitely not important and requires upstream to also federate, which will never happen for github so not important

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