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Gitlab is not willing to make a team around federation (codeberg.org)
submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev
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The external developer who started the work and was highly praised by Gitlab offered to work for them if they made a team around federation --> nothing.

A group of French universities are now considering making a group in order to work on it themselves and contribute back to Gitlab.

Gitlab will most likely use it as a big selling point once all the work has been done by externals with little to no cost to Gitlab.

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[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Gitlab will most likely use it as a big selling point once all the work has been done by externals with little to no cost to Gitlab.

I don't think so. It'd/'ll be a nice feature, and be listed as such. But it's not one of their primary selling points or marketing targets. Federation will be niche. Most useful in the FOSS space that pays little anyway.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I think you missed the point where 63 universities are using gitlab and actively interested in having federation. And that's just in France.

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[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

They may advertise it, but they’d be working on it themselves if they thought it would bring in serious revenue.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -4 points 1 year ago

I encourage you to actually read the link before making such a statement.

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[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

GitLab, Inc is a business and it’s not run by idiots. If federation was going to make them a bunch of money, they’d put a team on it. Relying on an outside group to execute your business goals is terrible management. It’s clear federation is not one of their business goals.

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