The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network.

To achieve that, we propose to use ActivityPub, the w3c standard used by the Fediverse. This will allow us to build upon a robust and battle-tested protocol, and it will open GitLab to a wider community.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Hold on, are we trying to decentralize an intentionally-centralized point for an already decentralized source versioning system? 😅

    • Kayn@dormi.zoneOP
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      9 months ago

      Not quite.

      A project’s repo would still be in one centralized location, like gitlab.com. But you’d no longer need an account on gitlab.com to make a pull request.