ActivityPub in GitLab
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Note: I think this is a duplicate but I can't find the other issue where this was previously discussed. It is related to other discussions on federation. I think useful to have a discussion where notes on how ActivityPub is progressing in GitLab can be recorded. --- @oelmekki started work to in...

The external developer who started the work and was highly praised by Gitlab offered to work for them if they made a team around federation --> nothing.

A group of French universities are now considering making a group in order to work on it themselves and contribute back to Gitlab.

Gitlab will most likely use it as a big selling point once all the work has been done by externals with little to no cost to Gitlab.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    33·
    6 months ago

    Not surprising at all. Federation is not a feature that their paying customers likely have much interest in… same for Gitea btw. the developers interested in forge federation AFAIK all went to Forgejo.

    Personally I think Gitlab also needs a community driven fork. Maybe a more ambitious https://heptapod.net/ could be a good base to start that.

    • SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev
      1·
      6 months ago

      Considering that git already support email based collaboration, I agree that a federated forge is really niche. It’s more of a frontend bonus. Which, considering the amount of company still using IRC, is not really a priority in the commercial world.