A single contributor (oelmekki) had started integrating ActivityPub into GitLab, which could have been a huge win for the source forge, but despite praising him for it GitLab didn’t assign enough resources to help him out. Unsurprisingly oelmekki ran out of steam and now, a year or so later, Gitlab just closed the epic.
Comments have started coming in from the community (and customers) expressing their frustration with GitLab over the decision. The ticket was reopened but without an official communication.
Forgejo is now our only hope. ✊
Gitlab is a product for enterprises which usually selfhost private repositories, I don’t think they give a damn about community stuff.
Yeah there are paying customers that want this, but I don’t think they see a business case, but rather a maintenance burden.
I understand they have more urgent things to tackle, but would be curious to know what they consider higher priority.
Their latest release announcement seems to focus on AI a lot https://about.gitlab.com/eighteen/
Hopefully it’s done carefully, not an excuse to push all users to run an AI slop machine.
If anything they see lost revenue because if users can federate companies will no longer buy licenses for external contractors’ access to internal repos, so where currently a single contractor employee results on however many companies they currently have projects for if this went through that number would drop to 1.
Plus someone might just make a servide solely responsible for providing users whoch can federate with gitlab which would implode theor business model. Unless they link federated users to the license in which case nobody would usemit. In either cese their business model stands in opposition to this.
I feel like it’s probably not a high priority, but the company I worked at that selfhosted gitlab was also paranoid about dependencies disappearing and so mirrored every repo they had a dep on.
I imagine that’s not that rare of a situation and it would have been a nice qol kinda thing if we could have federated with the upstream and gotten a backup of issues and such and could do everything on the one platform. definitely not important and requires upstream to also federate, which will never happen for github so not important
you should be using codeberg/forgejo anyway.
I think it’s a good decision. Those who aren’t happy just want a way to do ban evasion for calling everyone fascist.
Uh… Responding to the wrong post? Not sure what you’re on about.
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