And for anyone interested in a template:

  • sik0fewl@piefed.caEnglish
    62·
    12 hours ago

    What we need is some sort of distributed version control system.

    I’m not quite sure how it will work yet, but it would have the entire codebase and its history mirrored onto every developer’s computer. Instead of requiring a central repository, developers could share their changes directly with each other.

      • sik0fewl@piefed.caEnglish
        10·
        5 hours ago

        It was mostly a joke/irony.

        Git is already a “distributed version control system” that does exactly what I’ve described. On the other hand, relying on centralized systems such as GitHub means that the “distributed” nature of it doesn’t make it any more resilient to failure.

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        git itself is really not far from a blockhain. Blockchain is fine, it only has a bad rep because of ponzi schemes that use it to create crypto, but the technology and trustless consensus mechanisms are interesting.

    • dan@upvote.au
      371·
      12 hours ago

      Linus Torvalds is probably clever enough to create something like that. The Linux kernel sure could take advantage of it.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      11 hours ago

      but seriously, we need project management features that are decentralized: issue tracking, kanban, code reviews w/ comments, and ways to extend functionality without relying on a git forge.

      • sik0fewl@piefed.caEnglish
        11·
        11 hours ago

        Would be cool to see those as extensions to Git. Surely they could just be more Git objects?

      • waldfee@feddit.org
        4·
        9 hours ago

        You could create a git branch with an unrelated history to store this type of data; either as plaintext, md or something more sophisticated for dedicated tools. The biggest hurdle would probably be to define and agree on a standardized format

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          5 hours ago

          The last thing I want is merge conflicts in my issue tracker. The git data model is simply not right for conversational histories.

          ActivityPub is the obvious solution to decentralize public communication. We’re using it right now and AFAIK Forgejo is working to implement it for their issue tracker.

    • Ethan@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      We need better distributed connectivity. It wouldn’t be that hard to build a project management system (issues, etc) on top of Git, but DVCS only gets you so far without a way to connect directly to the other contributors.