Software Archaeologist
> make a forge
> close the forge
> want to buy github
@dashie MS wants to buy GitHub?
Oh boy.
@rysiek rumors for now, but lol yeah
FLOSS community:
> hey let's put all our eggs in this one GitHub basket
> what could possibly go wrong
> GitHub is so convenient
Microsoft:
@codewiz @dashie comparing a solution you can self-host with a fully centralized solution is, I feel, disingenuous.
Of course we should have *more* implementations (and we do, actually), but these are problems on two different levels.
I'd like to see federated issues/pull requests between git-hosting instances thouhg.
@rysiek @dashie However, I feel that the git hosting part of GitLab is secondary to the social aspects.
Even if you could self-host Facebook, you'd still want to be on the instance where all your friends are.
I feel that GitLab self-hosting makes sense only for very large projects like GNOME and Freedesktop, and even those incur a small loss of visibility for not being on the larger GitLab instance.
@codewiz
@rysiek @dashie
You can track that work here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
@rysiek @dashie What Mastodon gets right is that you can interact with anyone in the fediverse regardless of which instance they picked.
Would be cool if GitLab allowed sending pull requests across instances, following remote projects, and so on.