Btw, I am still unclear on your and @pilouâs original perception on what (then) FedeProxy was meant to be. To me it appeared as:
- Fedeproxy / Forgefriends: FOSS project implementing proxies to federate code forges, starting with issue federation.
- Diversity: Lower barrier to allow people to help us implement the proper code to achieve that.
Whereas I was and still am thinking more like:
- Forge Friends: Broad ecosystem of any initiative that strives to liberate code forges to the benefit of free software development.
- Diversity: Allow anyone involved in that ecosystem in any way to come along and collaborate in any way they can and want to.
My perception may be totally wrong, and you may just have preferred a different approach to come to something that is very similar. If thatâs the case then I still think youâve set a road thatâs likely to be unnecessarily long and hard. With my repositioning I am trying to increase the success criteria of your original idea (the proxies), the likelyhood of a growing community of active contributors to emerge, and the opening of additional opportunities by shining a light on the possibilities and enormous potential of âforge federationâ.
All my energy is dedicated to having an ongoing productization track, which I felt was missing in the âidea â user research â codeâ approach I perceived. I wear a âproduct ownerâ hat when writing all this (please donât fall on the term, just refering to a common role in software dev).
When I look at the forgefriends.org website, I see missed opportunity as well due to the lack of productization. It will lead among others to fewer contributors than you might have had already. I feel you may fall in the trap of being overly tech-focused.
I have spent way more time in the forgefriends community than I ever intended to (as said before, my priorities for the Fediverse lie in a different direction). The fact that I spend it was my curiosity of 1) What is Forgefriends actually? 2) Do you realize the enormous potential of Forgefriends? 3) Do you intend to realize Forgefriends to its maximum potential? and 4) How can other people become motivated to do so too?