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Seconded. I setup gitea on my server when Microsoft bought GitHub after comparing between gitlab, bitbucket, gogs, cgit, gitolite, and gitea. Gitea has the best

by lucb1e 7y ago

Seconded. I setup gitea on my server when Microsoft bought GitHub after comparing between gitlab, bitbucket, gogs, cgit, gitolite, and gitea. Gitea has the best community, features, and system requirements. Sad to say I still haven't moved my projects off of GitHub, but gitea setup wasn't the problem. One thing I'd still like to see, and am thinking if I may (as a nobody with no connections) somehow be able to organise myself, is a global search. One of the main advantages of GitHub is discoverability, both as a project owner and as a project seeker. What if there was a server that distributed searches to the different self-hosted instances of gitea/gogs/gitlab/etc.? (Opt-in of course.) The search would be distributed amongst all those setups which hopefully makes it light enough even though there will probably be a large volume, and this way people would have no reason to stay with a centralized company for git and bugtracker hosting. You could even have a client that connects to the instances individually, so even the search distribution server does not have to be centralized, you just need a DHT (ahem, I mean blockchain!) or some other central list of contributing nodes. And for very lightweight setups that still want to appear in search results, one could perhaps have different levels of results, from full code index to repository names and descriptions only.

t0astbread 7y ago
I'm not an expert on the topic but that sounds like the Fediverse.
- lucb1e 7y ago
  Would you know what protocol they use for search? I see that things like the Plume blogging platform have a cross-instance search, but whenever I ctrl+f for search on any documentation page there's nothing. For example, it says the four protocols it uses are activitypub (link goes to the spec at W3; the whole spec never mentions the word search), webfinger (spec page, an RFC, also never mentions it), HTTP signatures (just for verification it seems), and nodeinfo ("not part of the federation itself, but that gives some metadata about each instance"). I've looked in more places but this was one of the more concrete examples of where there clearly is search but I can't find the code or protocol anywhere. Edit: checked another; Peertube does not seem to search across instances.
oever 7y ago
You can get support for implementing something like this from NLnet. Either a federated version or a 'google for git' would fit the bill I imagine. Or adding a code search feature to Software Heritage. https://nlnet.nl/discovery/ https://nlnet.nl/discovery/
- lucb1e 7y ago
  That's a very interesting idea! Edit: removed a part about ForgeFed which I thought was what I had in mind, and they do a lot of things that would be nice to have (slightly more convenient than just "login with GitHub")... except search which you can't simply work around by creating an account on each git server where you want to contribute. Not sure what part of their project is discovery and why NLnet granted them money under the "Next Generation Search and Discovery" fund which, from the description, is very clearly aimed at search.

by lucb1e 7y ago

t0astbread 7y ago

I'm not an expert on the topic but that sounds like the Fediverse.

lucb1e 7y ago
Would you know what protocol they use for search? I see that things like the Plume blogging platform have a cross-instance search, but whenever I ctrl+f for search on any documentation page there's nothing. For example, it says the four protocols it uses are activitypub (link goes to the spec at W3; the whole spec never mentions the word search), webfinger (spec page, an RFC, also never mentions it), HTTP signatures (just for verification it seems), and nodeinfo ("not part of the federation itself, but that gives some metadata about each instance"). I've looked in more places but this was one of the more concrete examples of where there clearly is search but I can't find the code or protocol anywhere. Edit: checked another; Peertube does not seem to search across instances.

oever 7y ago

You can get support for implementing something like this from NLnet. Either a federated version or a 'google for git' would fit the bill I imagine. Or adding a code search feature to Software Heritage. https://nlnet.nl/discovery/ https://nlnet.nl/discovery/

lucb1e 7y ago
That's a very interesting idea! Edit: removed a part about ForgeFed which I thought was what I had in mind, and they do a lot of things that would be nice to have (slightly more convenient than just "login with GitHub")... except search which you can't simply work around by creating an account on each git server where you want to contribute. Not sure what part of their project is discovery and why NLnet granted them money under the "Next Generation Search and Discovery" fund which, from the description, is very clearly aimed at search.