State of federation in git forges
from tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 13:15
https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/203882

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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.

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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illusionist@lemmy.zip on 26 Aug 13:58 next collapse

I haven’t tested radicle too much but you should be able to use your “own account” to open PRs on other instances.

toot.radicle.xyz/@radicle

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 26 Aug 14:15 collapse

Interesting, I’ll check that one as well!

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Aug 16:12 collapse

Don’t expect Gitea to make progress on federation. Forgejo is a fork of Gitea and anybody that cares about federation is probably on the Forgejo side of the fork.

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 26 Aug 16:46 collapse

Maybe they’ll use the Forgejo code as most of it should be compatible, but yes, I won’t wait for it.