What could this Forgejo instance offer over other ones? #3
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There are lots of Forgejo instances, such as Codeberg and CodeFloe, each of them having their own philosophy. What advantages could this one have?
I wonder if we could create a culture in this one which encourages contribution and collaboration for projects. We could have lists similar to Awesome lists, but more official, and less, y'know, scattered and messy. Also, there could be a community hub or something.
I dunno, I just want software forges to be the social coding they were promised to be. :P
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What could this Forgejo instance over other ones?to What could this Forgejo instance offer over other ones?I think that firstly, we need to turn the free software development model on its head. Traditionally, we have a platform where tons of largely-inexperienced users join in and contribute small improvements to software to keep it alive. This model is nice and all, but it makes moderation a pain and means that we can't support our users as much as we want to.
Instead, I propose a system in which we just have a few people who are already competent at development, like you and me, and close off registration to the outside world, creating a sealed ecosystem of quality work maintained and contributed to by competent developers.
Then, as you said, we could make Awesome Lists for our repositories, and perhaps even make a repo where each person has their own personal website, like what I talked about on GitHub.
@PPPDUD wrote in #3 (comment):
In my opinion we should probably allow outsider contributions. Those are what keep projects alive. What if everyone on this site dies or goes to jail? The projects on it will be left untouched unless they are forked.
@amp wrote in #3 (comment):
Well, that could work too, but we still need some way to keep it a tight-knit community at the end of the day.
@PPPDUD wrote in https://git.omniblocks.org/hermitage/.profile/issues/3#issuecomment-1154:
Yeah, this I don't understand... if we're going to keep this closed and "tight-knit" then idk
@playforge-coding I have another idea. What country are the servers hosted in?
@PPPDUD wrote in #3 (comment):
The US
@playforge-coding wrote in #3 (comment):
Cool. Well, have you heard of the EU's push for something called "digital sovereignty"? They want their software and services to be made independently from countries like the U.S. This is nice and all, but it means that even though the EU gets to be independent from us, we still have to use things like Codeberg and comply with laws like the GDPR.
Why don't we make
hermits.ccall about gaining more independence from EU services and laws in the U.S.?@PPPDUD wrote in #3 (comment):
I mean, I like GDPR tbh
@playforge-coding wrote in #3 (comment):
But Americans don't get a say in how American corporations deal with user data. Doesn't that seem a bit silly to you? It's like if EU companies had to put up a banner saying "Uncle Sam rocks!" everywhere, even for European users, if they operate any services in the U.S.
@PPPDUD wrote in #3 (comment):
How about we do allow registration, but try to encourage new users to find their communities in new projects that need contributors to grow? Anyways, a tight-knit community sounds good and all, but I don't really want it to be too elitist.
@PPPDUD wrote in #3 (comment):
Makes sense I guess
@Cat wrote in #3 (comment):
That sounds like a good model. Should we set up a repository where organizations can advertise open spots for members and engage in discourse with one another?