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@gvwilson
> what I'm after right now is worked-out plans I can learn from
For what exactly? Choose one or more of;
* Exporting a full org/ repo and all associated data from a forge
* choosing a new forge
* Importing those orgs/ repos into a forge
* Local-first code collaboration using web forges only as dumb syncs (eg Nostr)
* Federating projects across forges, so no one forge is a SPoF
A few approaches have been tried for most of these.
This video of a FOSDEM talk about Forgejo's forge federation work has the slideshow fullscreen, with a camera feed of speaker Michael Jerger inset in the corner;
https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5610-show-and-tell-federation-at-forgejo/
This is the way.
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@meissa
> It was silent around progress on federation in forgejo
Is there a blog or a fediverse account where I can find periodic updates on forge federation progress? In general, or about Forgejo work in particular, either would be great.
@forgefed can do with some help.
Please refer to my Call to Fediverse, regarding #ForgeFed and #ActivityPub #ForgeFederation status in general.
3 yrs ago, @downey wrote:
> “💡 Today is a perfect day to exercise your independence from #BigTech, & #GiveUpGitHub.
> ☣️ #GitHub is the equivalent of #Twitter & #Facebook for software development -- creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS…
> Don't be stuck when #Microsoft…change[s] the rules on you.“
> https://GiveUpGitHub.org
…now ∃ more reasons to stop procrastinating & GiveUpGitHub now…
https://social.kernel.org/objects/bd3ddc58-31ee-41df-a326-e6619b3960e9
https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114995950245874315
Try @Codeberg today!
Or try @forgejo, the code #forge that #Codeberg is based on.
#Forgejo already has some #ActivityPub-based capabilities e.g. to federate stars, testing the waters for more to come. In their contrib community a whole @forgefed #ForgeFederation initiative is brewing..
The ongoing enshittification of GritHub is getting so bad that I can't even use web archiving sites to see the comments in an issue discussion;
Most of you are probably too old to remember that GH wasn't always the go-to place for publishing source code. There was a time that almost every open source project was hosted on the MySpace of code forges (and the origin of that term), SourceForge.
We've moved en masse before folks, it's time to do it again.
It's been far too long since I haven't updated this properly, but here's a snapshot of some open source communities that have already moved off GritHub;
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances
It seems like forge federation is a harder problem to crack than we thought when BorgSoft bought GH. But I'm still hopeful that one day, many of these forges will interoperate to create the experience of a unified code forging space.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
