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

Anyone still hosting Gitlab?

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[–] ozoned@piefed.social 43 points 18 hours ago (3 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.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 17 hours ago
[–] ballmerpeaking@programming.dev 9 points 15 hours ago (3 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 15 hours ago

So not really baked in at all then?

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Email chains and mailing lists are not really a practical way to develop anymore, and it is increasingly anachronistic (as is the idea of tying your identity to an email which is also baked into basic git). This was the only realistic democratic and federated option when git was designed, but it was never the ideal one. Forgejo is trying to build a better, more ideal, also-federated alternative that is really designed for code collaboration from the ground up. Once the design is stabilized, there's no reason it couldn't get built into git also. I would love to be able to create a PR with git itself and have it automatically submitted to the origin repository.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 18 hours ago

That sounds like the dream.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 13 points 15 hours 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.