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I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals
by jgtrosh 5mo ago
I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals).
The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere?
I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and could explain why this was posted to HN.
- dmos62 5mo agoRadicle is pretty cool. > Radicle’s Collaborative Objects (COBs) provide Radicle’s social primitive. This enables features such as issues, discussions and code review to be implemented as Git objects. Developers can extend Radicle’s capabilities to build any kind of collaboration flow they see fit.
- donatj 5mo agoI know I'm not supposed to make jokes, this is not reddit, but you might even say it's pretty radical.
- dmos62 5mo agoI think apologetic jokes are very on point for HN, so no worries!
- bombcar 5mo agoI was just wondering in another thread how much you could do storing things in git itself.
- lorenzleutgeb 5mo agoFor the reason of hbsd moving, see https://bsd.network/@HardenedBSD/116437657126172879 https://bsd.network/@HardenedBSD/116437657126172879
- hobofan 5mo agoSo instead of their self-hosted Gitlab instance being hammered, now their self-hosted Radicle instance will be hammered (and if they are lucky some of the other seeders will tank some of the load)? I'm not sure that this will actually solve the problem. This seems more like a facade for a move they wanted to do anyways.
- sunshine-o 5mo agoYes they have been looking into decentralized technologies like mesh networking, reticulum, etc. for a while now. My guess is the model is let the Github mirror repo be hit by bots and just do the dev work on the Radicle node. - [0] https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2024-09-23/hardenedbsd-and-protectli-collaborates-censorship-and-surveillance https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2024-09-23/harden...
- QuantumNomad_ 5mo ago> This seems more like a facade for a move they wanted to do anyways. Not even a facade really. They say this further down in the thread: > Given our previously communicated desire to migrate to #Radicle, this is a good motivating factor for moving in that direction.
- Skinney 5mo agoThe load will be spread across the network, but I guess the main benefit is that everything continues working even though HardenedBSDs official seed is down. Every user has their own node, and everyone's node talks to several seed nodes. Even if the official HardenedBSD seed is down, there's still going to be another node to sync with.
- hobofan 5mo agoDoes that actually work out in practice? Do you/someone here have experience with that in Radicle? IPFS in theory has a similar model, but in practice I've mostly found that if the original seeder goes away, at least part of a dataset becomes inaccessible.
- heresie-dabord 5mo agoIf it helps: https://radicle.dev/ https://radicle.dev/ There is no an explanation of what Radicle is/does in the announcement.
- swed420 5mo agoSome previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25313010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25313010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41509713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41509713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732213