#Godot is a big project hosted at Microsoft. If there is anything to the argument that smaller projects have to stick with Github to not lose contributors - doesn't that mean Godot has more freedom to leave?
Or, maybe ALL projects (big and small) just HAVE TO stay with Microsoft 🤷‍♂️ – somebody needs to tell Blender… they clearly didn't get that memo.
@mray
is there already a solid version (out of concept state) of a federated git? like matrix or fediverse for git?
For me the most annoying thing is the identity problem at the moment, for example I would try to report bugs in vlc and gnome if I wouldn't need to create another account for each custom gitlab instance, sure most support sign in with gitlab/github, but that's still relying on these centralised organisations.
@mray
@treefit Sounds like you want to keep an eye on F3 to me:
https://forum.forgefriends.org/t/about-the-friendly-forge-format-f3/681
The Friendly Forge Format (abbreviated F3) is an Open File Format for storing the information from a forge such as issues, pull/merge requests, milestones, release assets, etc. as well as the associated VCS (Git, Mercurial, etc.). Description F3 is designed to exchange the state of a software project between GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, etc. for backup, mirroring or federation. F3 is essential for a forge to provide key requirements: Portability: the entire state of a software project can be dum...
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