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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 week ago (20 children)

For those who were out of the loop:

What exactly is the idea of federated gitlab? Git is already inherently distributed and automagically mirroring to other remotes is generally like three lines in any CI syntax (and there is probably a precommit hook for it too).

Also: I can see a LOT of security issues with not having a centralized source of truth on what the commit hashes should be and so forth. is fedgit dot zip the source of truth for this app or fedgit dot ml or fedgit dot ca? Theoretically that is where signing comes into play but that gets back to: What advantage does a "fediverse" frontend have?

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 49 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I think the federation was more about interacting with other instances. Like creating issues and pull-requests without needing to create a new account for every instance.

I think this would be useful, as reporting bugs on GitLabs can be annoying if you have to create an account first.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

As one of the core contributors for even a moderately sized project on Github: HELL NO.

We already get more than enough drive by spam from everyone who just makes an account to complain that our code doesn't do something we never said it did. And if they don't even have to do that? Ugh.

I do firmly believe that more projects need to understand the implications of where they host something (similar to the IOS app that alerts you if ICE is in your area). But if someone can't be bothered to even use a throaway protonmail address to file a bug report or feature request? Quite frankly, what they have to say wouldn't have been worth our limited time anyway.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But if someone can’t be bothered to even use a throaway protonmail address to file a bug report or feature request? Quite frankly, what they have to say wouldn’t have been worth our limited time anyway.

You don't know that, because you've never once heard what someone didn't say. Their time is limited too.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Oh, sure, and the spam box in my email might actually have a valuable offer for me!

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