I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but there absolutely _needs_ to be a federated version of GitHub/GitLab.

Let me host my projects' critical infrastructure (issue tracker, PRs, private repos etc) on my own servers, while also being able to interact and socialize with the rest of the open source world.

I'll keep saying this until someone builds it - I would do it myself if I had enough time on my hands right now.

@fribbledom There is a number of issues on Gitlab.com related to that. This one is fairly recent: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/6468

... and this one lists quite a few related issues: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013

Federated GitLab (#6468) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab Enterprise Edition

### Problem to solve Teams want their own private instances of GitLab for various reasons, yet may need to interact with multiple private and public instances, including GitLab.com. ### Further...