• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Well, I’m lending a hand. I have some patches in production already, and I’ve only been contributing for a week or so.

      If you have the means, please help out. There are tons of bugs, important features, etc, and it’s a pretty stable base, so it’s a good time to jump in.

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        @sugar_in_your_tea About “good time to jump in”: the small size of the lemmy dev community gives you a chance to shift off Microsoft to a community git forge e.g. #Codeberg [1] that aims at forge federation [2] *before* there’s too much #TyrannyOfConvenience inertia. Mastodon devs are reluctant to even *discuss* giving up Microsoft [3].

        @ulu_mulu @lemmy #GiveUpGitHub #forgefed #forgejo https://giveupgithub.org

        [1] https://codeberg.org
        [2] https://forgefed.org
        [3] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22572

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          Well, I don’t get to make that decision. If the maintainers choose to do that, I’ll follow, but there’s a good chance that a lot of the other contributors won’t. For something in rapid development with a lot of community contributions, you want that barrier of entry to be as low as possible.

          So if it was up to me (and it’s not), I would say no. I would be open to an official mirror somewhere else, and perhaps moving to a separate feature/bug tracking system (esp. if it’s easier for the community to report bugs), which imo is the biggest barrier to moving the repo.

          I guess I’m not particularly worried about it since the project is FOSS and the difficulty in switching is pretty low.

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            @sugar_in_your_tea As a non-lemmy-dev, I don’t get to participate in that decision either, no matter how strong I think the arguments are.

            I’m not convinced that the difficulty in switching is low; as you say, bug/issue tracking is a big barrier, but other features are part of the #EEE strategy [4], and switching later when MS upsets the community like Musk or Huffman will be difficult.

            An official mirror would be a good start to make a future move easier.

            @lemmy

            [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2c_extend%2c_and_extinguish

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              There are mirrors of the Lemmy code on Gitea and Gitlab. They are linked in the readme. We also hope to migrate development to Gitea once federation is implemented.

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                We also hope to migrate development to Gitea once federation is implemented.

                That is awesome to hear! Lemmy federating with the code forge it’s hosted on sounds awesome!

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                  Im not talking about federation between Lemmy and Gitea. Not sure how that would work or if it would make sense.

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                    I get that but it still sounds awesome 😉 Of course Gitea federating with other Gitea (or Forgejo) instances would be awesome and make it a right candidate to host another fediverse project.

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          Uh reading your third link, no they are not reluctant to discuss it. That whole discussion sadly was about how the original “proposal” was framed, and I have to agree with that person that it wasn’t “proposed” but more stated as a demand.

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        Oh I’d love to do more but I’m not a developer :(

        Only things I can do is donating and helping other people by answering questions (if I know the answers ofc, still learning myself).

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          Well, that’s super helpful by itself!

          There are a couple other things you may be about to do as well, such as:

          • translations - if you speak another language; I’m happy to help guide
          • filing bugs/commenting on bugs on GitHub with information on how to reproduce

          But honestly, just engaging with people here is super helpful.

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            Thanks for the advice!!

            I don’t have a github account yet (only “lurked” there so far) but I’m going to create one in case I find something to contribute for bugs.

            As for language, yeah English is not my first language, there’s a server dedicated to people from my country, no idea if they’re already contributing to localization but I’ll go check.