The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network.

To achieve that, we propose to use ActivityPub, the w3c standard used by the Fediverse. This will allow us to build upon a robust and battle-tested protocol, and it will open GitLab to a wider community.

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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being able to create issues and discuss merge requests on various source hosting sites without having to create an account on each would be a huge step forward! Especially since M$ has taken over Github and is well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

[–] density@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

If this isn't Github already, what is?