Topic: Git repositories and the fediverse

[stdevel]

The majority of important open source projects use GitHub or GitLab for hosting the code. Even though open source developers don't have to fear that those services might be shut down soon - do we have a plan B? Is using centralized infrastructure for critical open source code a good idea? How could we live without those platforms? Both Gitea and Forgejo (a brand-new Gitea fork which would also be worth covering in a dedicated episode!) have plans for a decentralized but federated Git infrastructure using open standards like ActivityPub.

Agenda proposal

• Motivation
  • Why do we need an alternative to GitHub and GitLab?
  • History of open source code hosting infrastructure (BerliOS, Sourceforge)
• Tools and ideas
  • Forgejo
  • ActivityPub
  • Integration into the fediverse
• Current state of the development

Estimated duration: 60-90 minutes.