The current scope and definition is very long and detailed, with a lot of specifics making it hard to determine what is in scope and what not. Given the potential of the concept of “forge friends” and taking into account a position that is as attractive as possible for people to help realize it in all kinds of ways…
I would try to come up with a Mission and Vision that gives a frame of reference to the space that Forgefriends occupies, without being restrictive to the creative solutions that may exist within. Like e.g. …
- Mission: Forgefriends dedicates to making all functionality of code forges available for anyone to freely use and extend.
- Vision: Forgefriends allows all people to participate in the creation of the free software projects that serve our commons.
That can be improved, of course, but I think you get the idea. I didn’t even mention ‘federation’ as it is a technical concern, and may just as well that P2P is used and many other means that help democratize forges.
And you get something along these lines conceptually as the umbrella structure that Forgefriends represents:
