Lots of layoffs (“re-evaluating our operational footprint”) and switching to “agentic” processes. Target user is AI.

Anyone still hosting Gitlab?

  • cecilkorik@piefed.ca
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    7 days ago

    Email chains and mailing lists are not really a practical way to develop anymore, and it is increasingly anachronistic (as is the idea of tying your identity to an email which is also baked into basic git). This was the only realistic democratic and federated option when git was designed, but it was never the ideal one. Forgejo is trying to build a better, more ideal, also-federated alternative that is really designed for code collaboration from the ground up. Once the design is stabilized, there’s no reason it couldn’t get built into git also. I would love to be able to create a PR with git itself and have it automatically submitted to the origin repository.

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      15 hours ago

      Email chains and mailing lists are not really a practical way to develop anymore, and it is increasingly anachronistic

      By what objective measure? Just because everyone listened to Github’s siren song, doesn’t make it so.

      So many Open Source projects are just one or two maintainers. So many PR’s on Github involve just two people. That would all work over E-Mail, which is by design decentralized, unlike the web, which is by design not.