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The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition) (lemmy.world)

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[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 91 points 3 months ago

What we need is some sort of distributed version control system.

I’m not quite sure how it will work yet, but it would have the entire codebase and its history mirrored onto every developer's computer. Instead of requiring a central repository, developers could share their changes directly with each other.

[-] dan@upvote.au 53 points 3 months ago

Linus Torvalds is probably clever enough to create something like that. The Linux kernel sure could take advantage of it.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

but seriously, we need project management features that are decentralized: issue tracking, kanban, code reviews w/ comments, and ways to extend functionality without relying on a git forge.

[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 14 points 3 months ago

Would be cool to see those as extensions to Git. Surely they could just be more Git objects?

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I wonder how exactly Forgejo's planned federation will work...

[-] Flipper@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

Based in activitypub. You should be able to follow a repo with mastodon or Lemmy and then see ticket updates for example.

But it's far in the fuyure

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Nice, unfortunate that it seems so distant though

[-] waldfee@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

You could create a git branch with an unrelated history to store this type of data; either as plaintext, md or something more sophisticated for dedicated tools. The biggest hurdle would probably be to define and agree on a standardized format

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

The last thing I want is merge conflicts in my issue tracker. The git data model is simply not right for conversational histories.

ActivityPub is the obvious solution to decentralize public communication. We're using it right now and AFAIK Forgejo is working to implement it for their issue tracker.

[-] hoppolito@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

For issues tracking there's the venerable git-bug, although development has sadly slowed way down in the last years.

And I am always jealous of the way fossil repositories just have a complete front-end and wiki baked in, would love something like that for git.

[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Snd with relying on cloudflare

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Oh god kanban

[-] Krafting@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Maybe something on the blockchain??

JK JK don't burn me on the public place!!

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

git itself is really not far from a blockhain. Blockchain is fine, it only has a bad rep because of ponzi schemes that use it to create crypto, but the technology and trustless consensus mechanisms are interesting.

[-] mogranja@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 3 months ago

I think blockchain also has a bad rep because every chance is mirrored to every copy of the blockchain? Thus wasting a lot of power and bandwidth for most use cases. Unlike git, where you only push what you want, and everyone only pulls what they want.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The waste of power is often associated to the proof of work consensus, but that's not a requirement of blockchain. There are other ways to create consensus.

The bandwidth requirements really depend on what's being stored, but it's usually very manageable for a server. And clients not running validation don't need to store or transfer that much data.

[-] mogranja@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, I didn't know that. I need to read up on blockchain so I don't put my foot in my mouth.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Is this sarcasm about git/svn or are you serious?

[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was mostly a joke/irony.

Git is already a “distributed version control system” that does exactly what I’ve described. On the other hand, relying on centralized systems such as GitHub means that the “distributed” nature of it doesn’t make it any more resilient to failure.

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

Federated git hosting platform when?

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Google forgefed

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

https://radicle.xyz/ seems to be this

[-] bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah yeah we called that zip files and Dropbox. I don't miss it.

Im joking of course.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

We need better distributed connectivity. It wouldn’t be that hard to build a project management system (issues, etc) on top of Git, but DVCS only gets you so far without a way to connect directly to the other contributors.