@rabble have you looked into GitWorkshop?
@musicmatze @c3hamm @forgefed @nlnet
There is certainly a lot of interest in forge federation. I can mention that at https://coding.social recently a Commons collective has been started, called "Forging grounds" which is themed around this. Thus far there are no public posts, but forum space exists here:
https://discuss.coding.social/c/commons-cocreation/forginggrounds/42
For chat on the technical side there's the Common social groundwork chatroom at:
Ever since BorgSoft bought #GritHub, I've been maintaining a list of community-hosted code forges here;
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances
My goals for it are to;
* demonstrate that there are replacements for GH that don't require projects to host their own
* showcase the range of independently-hostable code forge software available
* to maintain a list of forges that might be keen to try a federation plugin, if and when there's working code available
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It seems like @forgefed's grant funding ran out and the entire project has just been left hanging, unfinished. This is a potentially important project, so this is really frustrating.
But really, anything important enough to get grant funding probably ought to keep going after the grant funding ends. Maybe grant-making orgs could provide some kind of support for projects transitioning out of funded work sprints, back into volunteer-driven coordination?
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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.
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.