It has gotten quiet around nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m's 10BTC bounty to replace GitHub.

Now more than half a year later with BTC being valued much higher, who is working on this? Or are people working behind closed doors to surprise us later?

That might be the problem with juicy bounties: You don't know if you are late to a race or if all others gave up already.

Any tech team lead hiring devs will ask for or check for themselves "the GitHub" of a candidate. Any activity on GitLab or Gitea dilutes the picture. With other platforms or self-hosted instances it only gets worse and hosting your git on relays won't fix anything.

It is a slight pain to contribute to non-GitHub projects as my daily routine involves checking GitHub for about 1000 projects anyway while there is a bunch of projects where I only respond to issues if I happen to notice the email notification between all the spam. A huge handicap for those projects.

I think, network effect and discoverability are orders of magnitude more important than any sense of feature completeness. Hunting for the latter is missing the forest for the trees. The former two should be and remain resolvable as long as GitHub allows mirroring repos and as soon as they stop that, they are dead, anyway.

As long as a platform (or protocol) can index and track activity across GitHub, GitLabCom, gitea instances, ... a unifying layer could exist and one day allow tech leads to stop asking "have you checked their GitHub?" and start asking "Have you checked their git?".

I hope that is the goal of the bounty.