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1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 09:54:30 EDT Mayel - ghost account

   So, who has started working on an #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams federation protocol for #git pull requests, forking, issue tracking, identity/membership/permissions, following, etc?

   #Github #Gitlab #gogs #federated #vcs #versioncontrol cc @cwebber

   1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:03:39 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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      Looks like some work has been done by #gitea

      https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612#issuecomment-382876960

      Also:
      https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/4437

      @cwebber

      1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:08:38 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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         Note the irony in both of those URLs...

         Standards-based interoperability (such as federation) is the only way for alternatives to capital-based monopoly-seeking systems to achieve the much needed networks effects conductive to community and cooperation.

         #centralisation #convenience #networkseffects

         @cwebber

      2. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:31:32 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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         @cwebber

         The #Gitlab issue on #federation is a also gaining attention : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517

         1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 11:24:29 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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            @cwebber

            I added a comment about #git federation: "Indeed, it would not be reasonable to sync all content between all instances, but what is very much needed is discoverability of FOSS projects and the ability to cross-follow and cross-post issues with easy authentication, and critically, to seamlessly make pull requests or forks across different instances."

            1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 11:25:06 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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               (continued) "The option to automatically mirror a repo on different instances, with its identifier being a combination of a canonical URL and backup URLs, would also help with resiliency and decentralisation of dependencies.
               FWIW, I agree that ActivityPub and ActivityStreams are the standards to build upon for this."

               @cwebber

               1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 10:40:33 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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                  Following up on the #github fiasco, maybe on top of only using #FOSS software, and federating as much as possible along #selfhosting, what we really need is agent-centric naming and #identity system (also to allow for nomadic identity for #Mastodon and the fediverse).

                  I wonder if we could use something similar to IPNS (in the #IPFS project)? https://github.com/ipfs/specs/tree/master/architecture

                  Or maybe simply https://www.opennic.org

                  @cwebber

   2. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:49:59 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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      Another option is git-ssb:
      https://social.coop/@bhaugen/100140415211552608

      #gitssb #git #ssb #SecureScuttlebot cc @bhaugen

   3. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Jun-2018 03:35:18 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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      Some people have started working on #"GitPub is a #decentralized #federation protocol based on the W3C's #ActivityPub, which extends #ActivityStream 2.0. It provides a server to server API for pull request, #forking and subscription of repositories provided by #Git web services."

      https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub/issues (yes, can't beleive even this is still on f-ing #github!)

      @cwebber

      1. Michael Wilcox (miwilc@niu.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Jun-2018 03:37:19 EDT Michael Wilcox

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         @mayel @cwebber hey, progress comes ontop of great irony :3