The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network.

To achieve that, we propose to use ActivityPub, the w3c standard used by the Fediverse. This will allow us to build upon a robust and battle-tested protocol, and it will open GitLab to a wider community.

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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Being able to create issues and discuss merge requests on various source hosting sites without having to create an account on each would be a huge step forward! Especially since M$ has taken over Github and is well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is what I like about the fediverse

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hold on, are we trying to decentralize an intentionally-centralized point for an already decentralized source versioning system? 😅

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Not quite.

A project's repo would still be in one centralized location, like gitlab.com. But you'd no longer need an account on gitlab.com to make a pull request.

[–] mark@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's nice, Gitlab. Now do RSS feeds.

[–] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Thought that's already supported? e.g. https://gitlab.com/diasporg/diaspora.atom

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub -1 points 2 years ago

You're looking for Forejo or Gitea