Cool project, I’m always weary by projects that take so much dev time to build out, but I’ve been keeping my eye on this one.
I’ve been thinking about git collaboration slightly differently from the rest of the code forges. I think git collaboration could be easier for a huge chunk of use cases.
I don’t see why we necessarily need code forges for collaboration. We just need something a little better than emailing patches around.
It’s why I’ve been building a pastebin super charged for git collaboration. It’s still very much a wip but for anyone curious: https://pr.pico.sh
WSL... filesystem? Either way, I firmly disagree, there are not many cases where I've been unable to do dev work on WSL. Only when I need particularly weird / specific networking or hardware (ie. GPU, which might work now) have I had significant problems.
The motivation you had to move to Linux evaporated when you started regularly using Linux, and it's important to consider Windows developers, for whom it's now easy to use Linux without completely moving to Linux.
Issue tracking support is great. I hope they add web login (maybe through ActivityPub and/or OAuth), and a wiki tab. This would put it on par with Fossil, which is similarly decentralized but has a bespoke version control which makes rewriting history and other git workflows difficult.
Fossil is primarily a DVCS, like git, but aimed at a different set of users (e.g. smaller projects) and includes decentralised tickets etc., but in practice it is easiest to have a centralised server. Its easy to run your own, but there is hosting available for Fossil: https://chiselapp.com/
Redicale seems much more decentralised. Rather than making it easy to run your own server it eliminates the server altogether. A more radical approach :).
it would probably be easier to build something like Radicale on top of Fossil because all that is missing is a way of finding to peers, and connecting to them without a server (e.g. from dynamic IPs, behind NAT etc.).
I'll get into radicle when they make a properly namespaced p2p alternative to crates.io out of it. I'll make it my religion. If I'm going to have all of these packages on my system at all times, I can continually dedicate 50-100K of my bandwidth to sharing them; everyone could, really.
Rust has a Microsoft dependency in crates.io. We all have a Microsoft dependency with github.
edit: iirc, they're extreme CoC warriors and crypto-connected, so that's going to limit the reach of the project.
Cool project, I’m always weary by projects that take so much dev time to build out, but I’ve been keeping my eye on this one.
I’ve been thinking about git collaboration slightly differently from the rest of the code forges. I think git collaboration could be easier for a huge chunk of use cases.
I don’t see why we necessarily need code forges for collaboration. We just need something a little better than emailing patches around.
It’s why I’ve been building a pastebin super charged for git collaboration. It’s still very much a wip but for anyone curious: https://pr.pico.sh
All your work at pico.sh never cease to amaze me!
(2024)
https://radicle.xyz/
Some various discussions:
Radicle 1.0 – A local-first, P2P alternative to GitHub
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41509713
Jujutsu and Radicle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44900455
This seems like one of the most interesting P2P projects out there.
It seems like it could be a really nice backend sync engine for offline first apps, aside from the lack of official support for Android.
Windows support yet?
Ah well
Windows is increasingly less of a viable platform for, well, anything. Time to pick a distro.
I don't know what it is about git but it really brings out the "Nuh uh, your use-case is wrong" talking points.
I think you can pick from most of them via wsl2.
I would advise using WSL.
I think they're focusing on developers, most of which are either planning a move to something else, wishing they could move or have already left.
50% of devs use windows.
Personally, what dev related motivation I had to move to Linux disappeared when wsl got decent.
That said, 90% of my work is still in windows proper, so any universal tool like git related needs to support it to be any use.
And if not me, anyone else you're collaborating with.
That feels like a contradiction; either WSL is a good solution and you can just run radicle there, or it isn't.
Good enough in a pinch to prevent a switch but not good enough to do all your work in the wsl filesystem.
WSL... filesystem? Either way, I firmly disagree, there are not many cases where I've been unable to do dev work on WSL. Only when I need particularly weird / specific networking or hardware (ie. GPU, which might work now) have I had significant problems.
The motivation you had to move to Linux evaporated when you started regularly using Linux, and it's important to consider Windows developers, for whom it's now easy to use Linux without completely moving to Linux.
Issue tracking support is great. I hope they add web login (maybe through ActivityPub and/or OAuth), and a wiki tab. This would put it on par with Fossil, which is similarly decentralized but has a bespoke version control which makes rewriting history and other git workflows difficult.
Fossil is primarily a DVCS, like git, but aimed at a different set of users (e.g. smaller projects) and includes decentralised tickets etc., but in practice it is easiest to have a centralised server. Its easy to run your own, but there is hosting available for Fossil: https://chiselapp.com/
Redicale seems much more decentralised. Rather than making it easy to run your own server it eliminates the server altogether. A more radical approach :).
it would probably be easier to build something like Radicale on top of Fossil because all that is missing is a way of finding to peers, and connecting to them without a server (e.g. from dynamic IPs, behind NAT etc.).
Love radicle! Excellent docs, great UI, easy-to-use cli and it's all written in Rust. Have been running a public node recently: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.ext4.xyz
I'll get into radicle when they make a properly namespaced p2p alternative to crates.io out of it. I'll make it my religion. If I'm going to have all of these packages on my system at all times, I can continually dedicate 50-100K of my bandwidth to sharing them; everyone could, really.
Rust has a Microsoft dependency in crates.io. We all have a Microsoft dependency with github.
edit: iirc, they're extreme CoC warriors and crypto-connected, so that's going to limit the reach of the project.