from tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2025 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.
- 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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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
Interesting, I’ll check that one as well!
Its hard to get into but it seems to be the first real federation around more than just git.
To me its not worth it unless they put real effort making it easier to use. Otherwise email is just as good. And git is already awesome.
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.
Maybe they’ll use the Forgejo code as most of it should be compatible, but yes, I won’t wait for it.