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woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months agoSelf hosting for your own needs is great but you won’t get the “drive by” contributions you get from shared platforms. On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.
I remember Sourceforge, bitbucket, and a host of other "source" servers. GitHub was nice for a while, but its just another iteration of the same. Heck a lot of the major repos (like Linux for example) only do mirrors to GitHub. The same with codeberg, Gitlab, and other centralized services.
At my last few jobs, we couldn't host on GitHub because of HIPPAA compliance. It was fine. Self hosting git is VERY common in quite a few industries.
On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.
So we need a free & federated identity provider to sign us up as easy as 123 there.
it’s called ssh
i am still rooting for patch requests to become more mainstream, it seems like the best possible solution. it just needs some discoverability.
Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy
Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy
OAuth is just making yet another account with a 3rd party authorization mechanism.
Yes, but you don’t have to worry about the password
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So what you’re saying is that we need federated git.
kybean@pawb.social 2 months ago
Forgejo, the software project powering Codeberg, is working on adding federation but it’s got a long way to go before it’s a usable feature
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 months ago
The closest I found that works is: https://hackaday.com/2024/03/16/radicle-an-open-source-peer-to-peer-github-alternative/
https://radicle.xyz/
It took a LONG time to get set up on one of my systems. It worked! Unfortunately, I found that just having git by itself was fine for my purposes. And most people are throwing in behind codeberg which is fine by me.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Huh. Gitlab just said it’s too hard with their cut staffing numbers and they’re not doing federation.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
…git is federated. i’m assuming they’re talking about things like issues and runners, but i don’t think that’s really necessary…
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
As in the federation of Forges, like Forgejo is trying to do
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you read it again, you may find I said gitlab and not just git.
And we won’t talk about how git’s decentralization is nothing like the concept of federation as it’s being used in this entire discussion.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah, IRRC thus far they only have starring (not I starring, mind you) implemented and it’s not even in main yet
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I mean, this is more-or-less how the Linux kernel is managed.