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I’d still like to start an awful.systems sub for folks to discuss their own open source projects (and in the, what, month or so since I proposed it I’m still stuck on finding a good name), but alongside that it’s becoming very clear that our projects will need a home that isn’t github. I’m having a hell of a time finding an alternative that:
there are some nice to haves that so far nothing seems to have:
fossil
)Have you heard of https://forgefed.org/ yet? It's an activitypub extension for developing git forges. Forgejo (from the codeberg people) is currently implementing federation with it.
I think I saw a mastodon post about an early version of it, but it’s exciting that it seems to be progressing quickly! that might make Forgejo (and codeberg for a hosted version) a contender — I’ll dig a bit deeper and see how it works. in the worst case, forgefed might be the enabling technology for the kind of software I’d like to use
Is there anything wrong with Gitea?
it felt fucking awful to administrate last time I tried, but it’s been a good few years
I've been on-and-off trying to get gittorrent packaged for Nix. I don't really care about Web-oriented forge workflows; I fully acknowledge that I'm something of a curmudgeon in that respect.
that actually seems fantastic and at least somewhat amenable to the establishment of a web UI (akin to how torrent trackers extract metadata about torrents, but more focused on the content of the repo). is it a nightmare to make a nix package for?
It's not a nightmare, but I've yet to succeed. npm2nix and node2nix struggle. napalm puts up a good effort, but doesn't quite work either. The biggest sticking point right now is that cjb used a custom DHT implementation with some patches, and I've gotta integrate that somehow.
I will be overjoyed if somebody else writes a working Nix flake. I've tried three times so far, and I bet it'll take five total.
I might give gittorrent a closer look as soon as some of my time frees up. packaging complex node stuff for Nix is always a bit of a pain, but it’s a pain I’m now very familiar with
e:
ugh I hate this part, but hopefully there’s a way to do something like what Mastodon and Lemmy do for external identity verification
isn't that literally the Ethereum Name Service but bitcoin
unfortunately yes