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Lots of layoffs ("re-evaluating our operational footprint") and switching to "agentic" processes. Target user is AI.

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[–] ozoned@piefed.social 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Codeberg is supporting forgejo which Codeberg is built on. Forgejo is ActivityPub powered git repositories. So imagine regular git, but everyone can have their own repos on their own sites and you can still interact with each other. So yes, Codeberg is centealized FOR NOW. But they're working on opening it up to EVERYONE to run their own and be able to access all the repos you use over the Fediverse.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The protocol extension is ForgeFed and it’s still a work in progress afaik

The issue tracker is on Codeberg.

Forgejo is only one of the implementations and not the reference implementation.

It will also be more general:

  • general VCS repo support and not just git
  • patch tracker (merge requests)
  • ticket tracker (issues)
  • release tracker
  • projects bundle repos and trackers together, which allows for them to be on different instances and have specialized implementations
  • roadmap / milestones for issues and MR
[–] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Will it be possible to have decentralized pull requests? Like I open a PR on my site, my friend reviews my PR on his site, and I get his reviews on my site?

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the plan, but it's still far away

[–] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago
[–] ballmerpeaking@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This was always baked into basic git from the beginning if you review your code in E-Mail chains or mailing lists.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So not really baked in at all then?

[–] iltg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

why wouldn't it be? you can send emails from web uis too. you can share diffs however you desire. you can have a remote for each developer, and push/pull changes to each other. the github mindset kind of ruined the resilience and distributedness of git: one central remote, one account authority, one central place where discussing MRs... ever forgejo is not as good as decentralized git: what's a forgejo identity?

meanwhile git has been decentralized and distributed since day one, linux is still developed in a decentralized and distributed way and forgepub is just not ready and not even close.

sending emails with an attached diff to many ppl is too hard? make a nice offline gui doing that and we're distributed. github was a psyop to make us un-learn git, making it better is silly, like wasting decades searching for "good cigarettes"

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, but by definition none of that is "baked into" git...

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

E-Mail workflow is baked in

git send-email can directly send an email and every committer is identified by a mail address.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 18 hours ago

Oh, well there you go. Looks like email PRs are baked into git.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

That's nowhere near as convenient as current web based PR.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago

That sounds like the dream.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just like bluesky is centralised "for now" i.e. forever

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

Except bluesky is funded by VC and they created their own protocol and federation design.

Codeberg is an open source repo only place, they're building in AP, they have monthly updates. So nothing like Bluesky.

But I understand the trepidation.