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1. arunisaac

   Why not use the git email workflow instead of trying to federate code forges? Git is already federated by means of email.
   https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html

   Tuesday, 13-Nov-18 08:21:49 UTC von social.systemreboot.net
   • drak

     Git via email is not federated but distributed: You cannot offload the parsing of emails, selecting patches, archiving, …, to an instance.

     Tuesday, 13-Nov-18 08:45:35 UTC
   • arunisaac drak

     Yep, git via email is distributed, not federated. My bad. But, I've always felt that the git email workflow works very well, and that there is no need to use ActivityPub or some other federation protocol to build a federated version …

     Tuesday, 13-Nov-18 08:55:03 UTC
   • drak

     It would be nice if git could tell the locally installed email program to send the mail (instead of needing setup itself).

     Tuesday, 13-Nov-18 14:39:21 UTC
   • arunisaac drak

     Yes, that would be nice. But, unfortunately many people don't use desktop email clients and only use web mail. For those people, it wouldn't work. Still, git could have provided at least an optional feature of integrating with a local mail client.

     Tuesday, 13-Nov-18 16:11:47 UTC
     drak gefällt das.
   • drak

     yes. Also some webmail can nowadays actually capture mailto: links, so just calling the browser with a pre-created link might actually work.

     Tuesday, 13-Nov-18 21:34:07 UTC