This is huge news. We need decentralized issue tracking and code yesterday, and all the previous tries have ended up at dead ends. Really hope this succeeds so all projects including lemmy can migrate off github / gitlab.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2022
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Oh my. I'm so, so happy! Thank you really much to all the people who have make this possible; you're are really changing the world for the better.
I'm wondering how far the the federation is being planned. Is it just that an user on Gitea instance A can discover projects on instance B? Or can an user on instance A also open issues, pull-requests etc on a project on instance B, assuming the user has the required permissions?
If it is the latter, I believe that would be awesome. Right now, I feel like as a starting project, if you want to be discovered and get contributors you basically need to be on a large, centralised code platform or instance such as codeberg, gitlab.com or github.com. I hope that it will lessen the barrier for people already on another Gitea instance to contribute to a project on another instance.