I like self hosting git in many ways, but I would kinda miss the opportunity to search for other repos, and "gists".
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I like self hosting git in many ways, but I would kinda miss the opportunity to search for other repos, and "gists". The whole community around the centralized Git forges. I mean, if everyone is scattered on thousands on platforms, it's not easy to find each other.
I can think of two solutions:
1. Something fediverse-like for git, where you can star and comment on projects on other instances.
2. A sort of self hostable search index to find content on all git forges set to be "discoverable". -
I like self hosting git in many ways, but I would kinda miss the opportunity to search for other repos, and "gists". The whole community around the centralized Git forges. I mean, if everyone is scattered on thousands on platforms, it's not easy to find each other.
I can think of two solutions:
1. Something fediverse-like for git, where you can star and comment on projects on other instances.
2. A sort of self hostable search index to find content on all git forges set to be "discoverable".Perhaps the commenting part is more easily solved with OpenID login support, and then perhaps the git forges themselves could support "starring" a URL to a repo/gist? Ie. on my own instance, I could click to star some external resource by name?
But there's still the discoverability issue not solved by those.
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Perhaps the commenting part is more easily solved with OpenID login support, and then perhaps the git forges themselves could support "starring" a URL to a repo/gist? Ie. on my own instance, I could click to star some external resource by name?
But there's still the discoverability issue not solved by those.
What do I know! I was browsing fedidb and found out forgejo is already doing some federation, and more is being worked on!:
https://forgejo.org/2023-01-10-answering-forgejo-federation-questions/
