ActivityPub support | GitLab
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The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network.

To achieve that, we propose to use ActivityPub, the w3c standard used by the Fediverse. This will allow us to build upon a robust and battle-tested protocol, and it will open GitLab to a wider community.

  • shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
    431·
    9 months ago

    Being able to create issues and discuss merge requests on various source hosting sites without having to create an account on each would be a huge step forward! Especially since M$ has taken over Github and is well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

    • density@kbin.social
      10·
      9 months ago

      well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

      If this isn’t Github already, what is?

      • shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I don’t think anything is yet, because thankfully interop and decentralization are core design principles of git itself. But it does become more centralized the more parts of the workflow we move to these platforms, like project planning, reviews and build processes. We are not at the point where you can’t reasonably use anything but GH, but that’s definitely M$'s goal, and we’re getting closer imo.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    Hold on, are we trying to decentralize an intentionally-centralized point for an already decentralized source versioning system? 😅

    • Kayn@dormi.zoneOPEnglish
      243·
      9 months ago

      Not quite.

      A project’s repo would still be in one centralized location, like gitlab.com. But you’d no longer need an account on gitlab.com to make a pull request.

      • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
        19·
        9 months ago

        He’s saying Git is already decentralized, GitLab isn’t.

        A project using mailing lists for development can already receive patches from (pretty much) any mail server (while still having a central Git repo).

        It’s kinda surprising it took this long for this to come to Git “forges” TBH.

    • Nyfure@kbin.social
      152·
      9 months ago

      afaik, PRs arent decentralized as they arent git features, as such so far you need an account on the same git-platform e.g. github to be able to use such features.
      Having such features decentralized would be huge.

    • syscall@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I don’t think of GitLab as super centralized (compared to GitHub) because you can run your own instance. Communication between GitLab instances would be huge

  • syscall@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    We’re getting ActivityPub support before first party SaaS/hosted GitLab on a custom domain 😭