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Is there any fundamental reason why no tool offers a federated alternative to GitHub? I mean, the distributed nature of git is ripe for federation, but why are

by aylons 8y ago

Is there any fundamental reason why no tool offers a federated alternative to GitHub? I mean, the distributed nature of git is ripe for federation, but why aren't issues, releases and pull requests federated? Maybe even some deeper integration with git itself, such as seeing new remotes on federated servers and fetching them. This may sound redundant to GitHub, which currently centralizes everything, but different projects and companies have their reasons to not use a single external tool for this. As an example, CERN's Open Hardware Repository (https://www.ohwr.org/ https://www.ohwr.org/) would be a perfect fit for this, and other laboratories and companies could integrate with them.

ptman 8y ago
Does scuttlebutt offer something like this? or only git repository hosting?
tboerger 8y ago
There are multiple tracking issues on the gitea tracker for federated features, so hopefully gitea will provide features like that.
- aylons 8y ago
  Could you please point me to them? Mostly for curiosity, and maybe add my two cents, as someone who constantly feels this need in a specific community.
  - tboerger 8y ago
    https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1299 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1299 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184 These issues and some others pop up if you search for federated.
u801e 8y ago
> Is there any fundamental reason why no tool offers a federated alternative to GitHub? There are tools like Gerrit and Phabricator. Also, projects like git and the linux kernel use mailing lists to handle things like issues, releases and pull requests/patch sets.
scruffyherder 8y ago
This is the way to go, nobody should be relying on one apathetic corporation to house source code of all things. The amount of people with powerful 64bit machines, and $5 VPS's is just too damned high to be relying on something that could kick you out, ban you or just straight up go bankrupt is amazing.
AsyncAwait 8y ago
> Is there any fundamental reason why no tool offers a federated alternative to GitHub? I mean, the distributed nature of git is ripe for federation, but why aren't issues, releases and pull requests federated? Thanks for mentioning this here, I've been trying to raise this whenever I can, but not a lot of people seemed to care enough about this, hope this gets more visibility.

by aylons 8y ago

ptman 8y ago

Does scuttlebutt offer something like this? or only git repository hosting?

tboerger 8y ago

There are multiple tracking issues on the gitea tracker for federated features, so hopefully gitea will provide features like that.

aylons 8y ago
Could you please point me to them? Mostly for curiosity, and maybe add my two cents, as someone who constantly feels this need in a specific community.
- tboerger 8y ago
  https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1299 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1299 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184 https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184 These issues and some others pop up if you search for federated.

u801e 8y ago

> Is there any fundamental reason why no tool offers a federated alternative to GitHub? There are tools like Gerrit and Phabricator. Also, projects like git and the linux kernel use mailing lists to handle things like issues, releases and pull requests/patch sets.

scruffyherder 8y ago

This is the way to go, nobody should be relying on one apathetic corporation to house source code of all things. The amount of people with powerful 64bit machines, and $5 VPS's is just too damned high to be relying on something that could kick you out, ban you or just straight up go bankrupt is amazing.

AsyncAwait 8y ago

> Is there any fundamental reason why no tool offers a federated alternative to GitHub? I mean, the distributed nature of git is ripe for federation, but why aren't issues, releases and pull requests federated? Thanks for mentioning this here, I've been trying to raise this whenever I can, but not a lot of people seemed to care enough about this, hope this gets more visibility.