Federation in Gitlab - NLNet grant proposal maybe? (December 2022)

[dachary]

@hugopeixoto

Is the spec in a finished/usable state, or is it planned to be finished by the time this grant would be approved? (meaning: can I implement it without having to worry much about it being incomplete?)

If by spec you mean forgefed, it is still in flux.

@hugopeixoto

Which forge implementations have federation working, that I could use today (or when the grant would be approved) to test interoperability?

Vervis and Forgejo is likely to be the next one in a few months.

@hugopeixoto

This October grant is for publishing an official spec and implement things in Vervis, a kind of reference implementation for forge federation. Is there anything already working today?

@fr33domlover is the one working on this and will be able to comment.

@hugopeixoto

There’s some references to moderation being important to codeberg (understandably), but no one actively focusing on that,…

In the context of GitLab it is likely too much and IMHO you should not worry about moderation.

@hugopeixoto

@dachary given the current timeline, I don’t think there will be time to get these written, but who were you suggesting would write these?

It’s a little short indeed. I would be happy to provide you with a recommendation.