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minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoI read this but I’m still not clear. What does it mean for a code repository hub to “support federation”? Like do you host your own project(s) on your own node/instance? But you still interact with users from other instances?
minus-squareeodur@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoYou’ll be able to follow, fork, open PRs and tickets across federated forges. One day.
minus-squareasudox@lemmy.asudox.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 days agoYes. ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension just for repository hubs like Forgejo. For example someone on instance codeberg.org will be able to interact with repos hosted on instance gitea.angry.im.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoDoes the code/project get hosted on a single instance? Or that is also made available on other instances?
minus-squareVictoria@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoGit is already decentralized, but for now creating a mirror is a manual process if that is what you mean.
I read this but I’m still not clear. What does it mean for a code repository hub to “support federation”? Like do you host your own project(s) on your own node/instance? But you still interact with users from other instances?
You’ll be able to follow, fork, open PRs and tickets across federated forges. One day.
Yes. ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension just for repository hubs like Forgejo.
For example someone on instance codeberg.org will be able to interact with repos hosted on instance gitea.angry.im.
Does the code/project get hosted on a single instance? Or that is also made available on other instances?
Git is already decentralized, but for now creating a mirror is a manual process if that is what you mean.