Creating self/community-hosted replacement(s) for GitHub

I further propose that all apps who currently do their dev on GH consider moving it to the same instances, so we can all continue working together easily

Really good thought. Will stay tuned to the discussion.

One to consider: https://git.coop

Here's another alternative for hosting git repositories: Phabricator.

Thanks for the tip @wouter . My understanding is that this is also in the same category of project management platforms as RedMine, which the pioneering BetterMeans was a fork of. It looks like RM can now host its own Git repos with this plug-in:
http://redmine-git-hosting.io/

One thing I like about GitLab is that despite a very noob-friendly web UI, everything is a Git repo under the hood, including Issue tickets and documentation wikis. This means power users can track and contribute to everything from the command line, edit conflicts on wiki pages can be solved with Git merge, and backups / exports/ imports are simple Git pull/ Git push operations. Can Phabricator do this too?

@bobhaugen

We're working an ActivityPub-based OAE project

What's it called? I'm keeping a list here (for now, soon to be moved to the wiki on that project):
https://gitlab.com/fediverse/fediverse.gitlab.io/issues/8

watching https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub

I saw that. Cool concept, and timely ;) For anyone new to GitPub, it's a proposed standard that extends the ActivityPub standard (used by Mastodon, Hubzilla, PeerTube ec), in a way that could allow federation between community-hosted code forges, whether they run on GitLab, Gogs, Gitea, Phabricator, RedMine etc. Work on plug-ins for each widely used platform need to be in progress as the spec is drafted, to keep the draft focused on getting things working ASAHP.

@graham2

One to consider: https://git.coop

Ae, this is a GL instance run by an existing coop. Groups can get access by buying a share in the coop (share price negotiable, minimum $1), not sure what membership criteria are though. Social.coop is looking at buying in and using it.

@strypey

We're working an ActivityPub-based OAE project

What's it called?

https://docs.opencoopecosystem.net/

I don't think that doc says anything about ActivityPub yet, though. We just decided on that as our substrate, after looking a lot at SSB and some at Holochain. And it's tentative, we're pretty sure it will work, but don't have it up and running yet.

Here's @ivan116 's doc about the first app, called Agent. It will be an agent-centric architecture.

Sweet as, I'm just making a list of projects to watch. Once they're production-ready, and can interoperate successfully with other AP apps they get added here:
http://fediverse.party/

One to consider: https://git.coop

Ae, this is a GL instance run by an existing coop. Groups can get access by buying a share in the coop (share price negotiable, minimum $1), not sure what membership criteria are though.

You just need to agree to the rules and complete a membership form and buy some shares.

Apologies if I missed this, but does anyone know if any of these options can support federated instances? Even better if there is any movement towards being able to federate instances of different git based software so we an re-create the network effect that brought many of us to github?

There are folks working on two different approaches to federating software forges. One is ForgeFed (formerly GitPub), who are working on a set of extensions to the ActivityPub standard for this. The other is Drew DeVault, who is working on a system using Git and email protocols (see his test bed at sr.ht). I was initially really excited by the idea of using my fediverse account to follow a software repo, or comment on an issue, and having @mentions from that repo come up in my fediverse app. But Drew makes a good case for using the email-based tools that are already built into Git.

Maybe the answer is some combination of both? After all, Git has its own set of protocols, email makes use of a number of protocols (POP, IMAP, SMTP etc), and ActivityPub is a standard set that includes a number of protocols (ActivitySteams, JSON, some AP apps use Webfinger for @mentions etc). Hopefully the ForgeFed folks take Drew’s comments on board, and come up with a standard set of protocols that together provide everything we need to federate software forges, while being as easy to implement as possible.

not the right place I know, but just wanted to express my gratitude at being able to meet you, even if we talked way to little, but great to have seen you in Hong Kong

It's great to have met both of you this year for the first time in real life, separately, so it gives me pleasure to know that you have also met each other! Face-to-face just adds that extra depth, doesn't it!