Software Archaeologist
> make a forge
> close the forge
> want to buy github
@dashie MS wants to buy GitHub?
Oh boy.
@rysiek rumors for now, but lol yeah
FLOSS community:
> hey let's put all our eggs in this one GitHub basket
> what could possibly go wrong
> GitHub is so convenient
Microsoft:
@codewiz @dashie comparing a solution you can self-host with a fully centralized solution is, I feel, disingenuous.
Of course we should have *more* implementations (and we do, actually), but these are problems on two different levels.
I'd like to see federated issues/pull requests between git-hosting instances thouhg.
@rysiek @codewiz @dashie I wrote up https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517 some time ago. I think it's viable, and quite possibly fun to do.
@lupine @rysiek @dashie Awesome proposal, and it seems feasible too!
Some time ago, an old friend of mine implemented a more radical approach to distributed git hosting: https://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/
I'm not saying we should do it this way, but I love how he combined three existing technologies to produce fully-distributed version control.
@codewiz @rysiek @lupine @dashie this definitely does not have all features discussed, but if you haven't already have a look at gitbucket https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket . it's extremely easy to set up and use, and has many of github's features (so much so that github threatened them to change their ui). there's a plugin system that might be a viable way to introduce federation...
@walruslifestyle @rysiek @lupine @dashie If it's really so mature, then why is it hosted on GitHub? 
@codewiz @walruslifestyle @rysiek @dashie writing code and running hosts are very different jobs :-p. Or they were before devops anyway. Gogs/gitea are also awesome - much faster to get up and running, lighter system requirements
@lupine @walruslifestyle @rysiek @dashie Gittorrent's design addresses the serving problem by piggybacking onto Bitcoin for naming and leveraging Bittorrent as a secure CDN.
Just saying... I don't really believe that Gittorrent would make a good alternative for GitHub because git hosting is just one piece of collaborative software development.
Perhaps our best chance is adding some federated features for GitLab. Especially while there seems to be enthusiastic support from core developers.
@rysiek
@codewiz @lupine @dashie
Git over SSB is another thing that exists. Haven't really experienced it firsthand.
https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoyf2DtR3WQfCkDKlheQU%3D.sha256
@rysiek @lupine @dashie It works, but it was always intended as a proof of concept, I guess?
The hard problem, IMHO, is re-creating the full GitLab experience on top of all this. Designing a nice workflow was already very hard without throwing torrents and blockchains in the mix.