what’s the status with decentralized GitHub?
What’s the hold up?
What if we don’t need to recreate GitHub but simply use it as a source of original truth for replication across blobs?
This way if it does get compromised you can point to a different self hosted source of truth?
Or am I missing something? Sorry talking outa my ass tonight …
I mean utilizing blossom
Does running a gitea instance count as decentralized GitHub? Probably not since you don't get unified issues/forks/pull requests. Privately hosted repos but publicly accessible everything else via nostr events would be neat.
Oh I see what’s missing from my thought process 😆 😅
Issues and PRs do sound like they could be formatted as nostr events.
But to be able to replace GitHub, you'd need a few things:
- A tool that allows anybody to easily host their own git repositories, publicly readable via HTTP. You'd need this as a maintainer (obviously), but also as a contributor, to host the branches you're requesting to be merged.
- Some way of publishing some key which identifies the repository, and which can be associated with issue/PR events. This could possibly just be a URL, but that feels fragile/dangerous. Perhaps it is a public key hosted at a special path on the same domain, NIP-05 style? I'm not sure how you'd handle multiple maintainers, though.
- Event types for PRs, issues, closing PRs/issues, commits, etc.
- Some kind of UI for publishing/consuming all these event types
- As a bonus, you probably want some kind of web-accessible service that indexes these events for discoverability (and I guess also acts as a reliable relay for them)
One neat thing about issues/PRs via nostr events is it could allow for profile pages that aren't just a feed of what you're talking about, but also include what you're contributing to open source. It'd also allow for zaps on issues/commits/PRs. Potentially, it could change the incentive structure from one where talk is rewarded, to one where building is.
There's still a bunch of problems to solve (e.g. What info do the events need? Would it also be beneficial to attach a nostr public key to individual git commits as metadata, given the key formats are incompatible? What happens to events that have been invalidated by a force push?) But it feels worth spending more time thinking about (and maybe even building).
nobody paying for it is what
gitrepublic project is self funded and i'd join it too to make a smooth integration with the relay and several other parts of my expertise would help the project (and are, already)
the people with the money don't have brains to filter out the horseshit so we gotta do what we gotta do
Yeah, innovation needs to come from us serfs, on the bottom.
Nostr is just like Real Life. 😂
He has so many people muted, and has such a myopic feed, that he's completely clueless about what is going on.
Isn’t that what Radicle is?
