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Gitlab is not willing to make a team around federation (codeberg.org)

submitted 4 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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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.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 points 4 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.