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State of federation in git forges (lemmy.nocturnal.garden)

submitted 1 month ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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I'm about to set up a new git forge for my own stuff. Most forges already have the basic functionality I want (nice ui for merge requests etc).

What I'm looking forward to is federation. Create a Pull request for a repository hosted on another instance without needing to create an account over there would be a game changer.

Gitea had some plans but I don't see anything happening since three years in their dedicated forum
Gitlab has a dedicated epic but some official said it's not a priority last year
Forgejo has a roadmap and a Federation section in each of their montly reports (latest). However, the roadmaps mentions that Federated PRs are in the far future.

From this it seems that Forgejo is the only one activetly working on Federation.

Anything I'm missing? Anyone involved in any of those willing to tell me more? Especially if all of them are working in a similar direction where not only decentralization but also federation (e.g. between Gitlab and Forgejo) is possible?

On a side note, I found the ForgeFed project which is an ActivityPub extension, not sure if any of the forges wants to implement this. Their example forge Vervis is not reachable.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, sadly Forgejo is the only one working on it and it seems like the Gitea base code is making it somewhat difficult to implement (aside from the various moderation issues that come with federation that also need to be solved).

[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That would be really great! Codeberg.org has been a bit involved in the fediverse, they may be open to the idea too.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are the org hosting Forgejo development and are well aware of efforts to add federation to it.

[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Haha I should have guessed! Thanks for the info

[–] jordan@sometimes.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@tofu There is https://radicle.xyz/ which looks pretty interesting but I haven't taken the time to try it out myself yet

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 2 points 1 month ago

Adding a p2p layer to git really seems interesting. Gotta check out their desktop

[–] percent 2 points 2 weeks ago

This kinda sounds similar to how things worked before GitHub, when people just emailed their git patches. Some OSS projects still work that way.