About the FedeProxy platform the following observations:
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Though it is a full-blown AP server app, it need not be ‘heavy-weight’ and might be installed on the same machine as the forge software.
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The platform has its own UI (or CLI), at a minimum to do the config and installs of plugins. But the UI may go further… it might provide a auditing & reporting service of all that’s happening in connected repositories. It may offer dashboards e.g. for non-technical stakeholders that are not likely to engage with a forge account, but are interested to be informed on specific project activity. Again, these UI’s are also extensions and not part of the FedeProxy project itself… anyone can build them (and publish them to an ‘awesome-fedeproxy’ curated list
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What FedeProxy does in essence is provide the solid foundation of an ecosystem to emerge.