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Gitlab working on ActivityPub for Merge/Pull requests (writing.exchange)
submitted 1 year ago by negativenull@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[-] aard@kyu.de 18 points 1 year ago

Github is pretty annoying nowadays - and pretty much the only reason I haven't left for my own stuff is because going to a different platform will probably see me in the same situation in a few years again.

I still have my self hosted git instances around, and everything is pushed to there plus github - but github is where issues get created and pull requests come in as obviously nobody wants to make yet another account. That might be able to solve just that.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, this is huge.

It makes self hosting projects others will interact with actually realistic. And, assuming they support forks at some point, migration and backups should be easier than some of the other federated platforms.

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Gitea is also claiming to work on ActivityPub soon as well.

[-] fer0n@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

So that people can follow the PRs for a certain project? Or what’s the use case for this

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The end-goal is to support AP for merge requests (aka pull requests), meaning git.alice.dev can send a merge request to gitlab.com/Bob/project.git

In the most expansive version of this vision, anyone running an AP-enabled git instance (with one or more repos) can send MRs to another instance’s repo, without having to sign up there.

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[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

That's actually really fucking cool.

[-] fer0n@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Thanks :) So since Gitlab can be self hosted there wasn’t a way to make PRs from one instance to another?

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, each server was separate but this helps their users connect between them without signing up. Also apparently Gitea is adding similar support

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nice!

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