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Lyn@GPN24 📞 ACOW @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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Decentralization and ditching GitHub is great and all, but not every individual FOSS project should have their own giant stack of SSO, Zulip, custom external issue tracker, Gerrit and external wiki in addition to a self hosted Forgejo...
especially when there's like <5 regular contributors!

It shouldn't be this complex and confusing to contribute to a project for no reason. And I'm not buying that a non-huge project has an actual, real reason.

If you, dear reader are thinking about overengineering your own project's development stack like this, please be aware that you will be driving external contributors away, and consider if that aligns with your goals.
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rakoo @rakoo@blah.rako.space
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@fugi

YES

Copy-pasting github/centralized platforms and putting a cool license on top of it is the default move but really doesn't solve the power dynamics inherent with centralization. Fossil is enough for most projects
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stvo @stvo@darmstadt.social
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@fugi thats why there are projects like @Codeberg
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Lyn@GPN24 📞 ACOW @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@stvo @Codeberg Yes ✨
tbf I'm also fine with self-hosted Forgejo instances, it just shouldn't need to get much more complex than that...
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Lyn@GPN24 📞 ACOW @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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While this is a bit exaggerated, it was inspired by an actual project to which everything except having a Gerrit applies. I just don't want to call out anyone in particular and start a flame war or anything.

My intention is also not to hate on any of the mentioned software or condemn their use. (Except that I really don't get the point of an external issue tracker.)
This is just about having such a giant, confusing dev stack for a non-huge project.
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Katzenmann / Catperson @ GPN @katzenmann@c3d2.social
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@fugi I just use codeberg
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kloenk @kloenk@catcatnya.com
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@fugi well for my project (which sadly currently pretty much just me) I got a gerrit. But that is for the workflow that gerrit offers. Just hate the GitHub pull request model with a passion. And we’ll Zulip, forgejo and sso comes from the non profit sponsoring the gerrit for me
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Lyn@GPN24 📞 ACOW @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@kloenk I may personally disagree on pull requests vs. Gerrit, but that all seems completely fair to me ^^
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kloenk @kloenk@catcatnya.com
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@fugi yeah. Have my opbinions through working on the kernel :)

And like if someone want to work on Rokc send me a mail if gerrit is not yours :)
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zivi @zaire@fedi.absturztau.be
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@fugi wait for git forge federation + use codeberg.org in the meantime
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Luna neobot_dog_ears heart_trans thermian @Minionflo@mastodon.minionflo.net
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@fugi would u consider Forgejo with SSO and woodpecker CI over-engineered?
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Lyn@GPN24 📞 ACOW @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@Minionflo would be okay in my book, but the (separate) SSO would not strictly be necessary imo
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