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Gitlab is not willing to make a team around federation (codeberg.org)
submitted 3 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev
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The external developer who started the work and was highly praised by Gitlab offered to work for them if they made a team around federation --> nothing.

A group of French universities are now considering making a group in order to work on it themselves and contribute back to Gitlab.

Gitlab will most likely use it as a big selling point once all the work has been done by externals with little to no cost to Gitlab.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We are already in touch with GitLab, mainly to understand how their contributor community works [2].

Now we try to build a team of contributors among our institutions.

Good grief, here's the quote once again. That's what's "stopping them". And if you bothered to click on links, you'd have read that an event took place where they discussed how to contribute and what the goals of contributing are. The comment you quoted from even has a link to a very legible paper explaining what problems they face and how federation can help.

But I get the feeling you just want to be angry at something and dislike universities for some reason. There's no need to continue this "discussion".

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[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Right.. well clearly I have clicked all the links, and read all the things, and I still don't understand it. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

So assume in good faith, assume I have absolutely no idea what the problem even is due of my own stupidity. So ELI5 and give a synopsis of the problem.