Issue tracking support is great. I hope they add web login (maybe through ActivityPub and/or OAuth), and a wiki tab. This would put it on par with Fossil, which is similarly decentralized but has a bespoke version control which makes rewriting history and other git workflows difficult.
Fossil is primarily a DVCS, like git, but aimed at a different set of users (e.g. smaller projects) and includes decentralised tickets etc., but in practice it is easiest to have a centralised server. Its easy to run your own, but there is hosting available for Fossil: https://chiselapp.com/
Redicale seems much more decentralised. Rather than making it easy to run your own server it eliminates the server altogether. A more radical approach :).
it would probably be easier to build something like Radicale on top of Fossil because all that is missing is a way of finding to peers, and connecting to them without a server (e.g. from dynamic IPs, behind NAT etc.).
Cool project, I’m always weary by projects that take so much dev time to build out, but I’ve been keeping my eye on this one.
I’ve been thinking about git collaboration slightly differently from the rest of the code forges. I think git collaboration could be easier for a huge chunk of use cases.
I don’t see why we necessarily need code forges for collaboration. We just need something a little better than emailing patches around.
It’s why I’ve been building a pastebin super charged for git collaboration. It’s still very much a wip but for anyone curious: https://pr.pico.sh
I'll get into radicle when they make a properly namespaced p2p alternative to crates.io out of it. I'll make it my religion. If I'm going to have all of these packages on my system at all times, I can continually dedicate 50-100K of my bandwidth to sharing them; everyone could, really.
Rust has a Microsoft dependency in crates.io. We all have a Microsoft dependency with github.
edit: iirc, they're extreme CoC warriors and crypto-connected, so that's going to limit the reach of the project.
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Some various discussions:
Radicle 1.0 – A local-first, P2P alternative to GitHub
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41509713
Jujutsu and Radicle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900455
Redicale seems much more decentralised. Rather than making it easy to run your own server it eliminates the server altogether. A more radical approach :).
it would probably be easier to build something like Radicale on top of Fossil because all that is missing is a way of finding to peers, and connecting to them without a server (e.g. from dynamic IPs, behind NAT etc.).
Is it actually? I never got the impression SQLite was a smaller project, but I'd confess to not knowing much about how it is organized.
Ah well
It seems like it could be a really nice backend sync engine for offline first apps, aside from the lack of official support for Android.
I’ve been thinking about git collaboration slightly differently from the rest of the code forges. I think git collaboration could be easier for a huge chunk of use cases.
I don’t see why we necessarily need code forges for collaboration. We just need something a little better than emailing patches around.
It’s why I’ve been building a pastebin super charged for git collaboration. It’s still very much a wip but for anyone curious: https://pr.pico.sh
Rust has a Microsoft dependency in crates.io. We all have a Microsoft dependency with github.
edit: iirc, they're extreme CoC warriors and crypto-connected, so that's going to limit the reach of the project.