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Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by htrap »

htrap wrote: post #106

We are building https://gitopia.org - Permanent Data Storage provided by Arweave - Works from within git with the help of git-remote-helper `npm install -g git-remote-gitopia` so no need to learn new tooling - Built-in incentivization to token holders who also take part in the governance of Gitopia - Token holders share revenue made by the platform - You can mirror your GitHub repositories now using the Github Mirror…

Link to git-remote-gitopia source hosted on Gitopia:

https://gitopia.org/#/z_TqsbmVJOKzpuQH4YrYXv_Q0DrkwDwc0UqapR...

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by ehejsbbejsk »

Frost1x wrote: post #101
dsign wrote: post #73

We kind of need this yesterday... what's the point of having a decentralized git if the issues are centralized at Github? (which, not to make too fine a point of it, is owned by Microsoft). Even if you host your own Gitlab, there is always that day when the hard drive of the server fails and the ops have to spend a weekend restoring backups while changing hosting company because who crashes the hard-drive of an expen…

I always find it comically ironic how the industry basically centralized a version management system (git) that was inherently designed to be decentralized. "Git is so great! Let's add these higher level project management features but let's do it in a centralized model!"

Physical infrastructure itself needs to be federal. I believe that’s the most economical solution. But it could be virtually decentralized.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by bob1029 »

dsign wrote: post #73

We kind of need this yesterday... what's the point of having a decentralized git if the issues are centralized at Github? (which, not to make too fine a point of it, is owned by Microsoft). Even if you host your own Gitlab, there is always that day when the hard drive of the server fails and the ops have to spend a weekend restoring backups while changing hosting company because who crashes the hard-drive of an expen…

We use Github and we are not that interested in the decentralized aspects of git itself.

The low-friction UX and integration of issues/PRs/code makes it lightyears easier to ramp new developers than if I had to sit down and also explain Jira & Jenkins to them. The fact that git is centralized or decentralized crosses our minds precisely zero times per week.

In the absolute worst case where Microsoft somehow loses everyones' issue/PR/project data (assuming non-enterprise cloud hosted account), we could still rebuild with whoever has the latest master copy on their local. Presumably, one of our developers must have made the latest commit so this should work out always. We have a process where we include the issue numbers in our commits, so it would be possible to reconstruct a large portion of these with inference across commit history. Personally, I trust Microsoft to safeguard our business data more than I trust our 7 person team w/ a $2000/m AWS budget.

Ultimately, I think the objective of making all things around your source control technology look & talk like your source control technology is a huge mistake. Issues and code are completely orthogonal things that intersect in very narrow ways. These intersections are hugely valuable, but we are not interested in aligning the planes of functionality.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by SamuelAdams »

htrap wrote: post #106

We are building https://gitopia.org - Permanent Data Storage provided by Arweave - Works from within git with the help of git-remote-helper `npm install -g git-remote-gitopia` so no need to learn new tooling - Built-in incentivization to token holders who also take part in the governance of Gitopia - Token holders share revenue made by the platform - You can mirror your GitHub repositories now using the Github Mirror…

Hey FYI your landing page gave me this error, Firefox ESR 78.5.0. Right now it's a big blank screen with no content.

{…}

code: "EACCES"

errno: 13

message: "Error: EACCES: Permission denied."

path: undefined

stack: "n@https://gitopia.org/main.js:277:55609\non/

syscall: ""

: Object { constructor: n(t, n, r), toString: toString(), toJSON: toJSON() , … } main.js:339:94885 c https://gitopia.org/main.js:339 configure https://gitopia.org/main.js:277 store https://gitopia.org/main.js:277 on https://gitopia.org/main.js:277

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by htrap »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #115
htrap wrote: post #106

We are building https://gitopia.org - Permanent Data Storage provided by Arweave - Works from within git with the help of git-remote-helper `npm install -g git-remote-gitopia` so no need to learn new tooling - Built-in incentivization to token holders who also take part in the governance of Gitopia - Token holders share revenue made by the platform - You can mirror your GitHub repositories now using the Github Mirror…

Hey FYI your landing page gave me this error, Firefox ESR 78.5.0. Right now it's a big blank screen with no content. {…} code: "EACCES" errno: 13 message: "Error: EACCES: Permission denied." path: undefined stack: "n@ https://gitopia.org/main.js:277:55609\non/ syscall: "" : Object { constructor: n(t, n, r), toString: toString(), toJSON: toJSON() , … } main.js:339:94885 c https://gitopia.org/main.js:339 configure http…

Thanks for flagging this. We'll look into it. Meanwhile you can try from a different browser.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by nulbyte »

viraptor wrote: post #39
nikitaga wrote: post #38

What a nice funky design. That front page has a soul, unlike almost everything else I see nowadays.

There's a post about the design here: https://radicle.community/t/the-journey-to-radicles-new-bran...

I like the sketch of the first design presented there. It seems to fit with the product. Unfortunately, the cult-route they went with produced a busy page with lots of animation that distracts the reader. Also, overlapping headings with animations and changing colors immensely reduces readability.

If it weren't overly animated and the headings were legible, this design might actually be pleasantly nostalgic. But in its present state, it makes me wish for old radicle, when it was built on ipfs and had no GUI. The overt use of animation is exactly how I tend to think of unnecesary GUIs.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by hamaluik »

fn1 wrote: post #76
dsign wrote: post #73

We kind of need this yesterday... what's the point of having a decentralized git if the issues are centralized at Github? (which, not to make too fine a point of it, is owned by Microsoft). Even if you host your own Gitlab, there is always that day when the hard drive of the server fails and the ops have to spend a weekend restoring backups while changing hosting company because who crashes the hard-drive of an expen…

Can't you just serialize all issues into the repository and then write scripts/hooks to sync them in/out of textfiles in the repo?

I’ve used git-bug[1] successfully in the past for something similar but more ergonomic.

1: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by ape4 »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #115
htrap wrote: post #106

We are building https://gitopia.org - Permanent Data Storage provided by Arweave - Works from within git with the help of git-remote-helper `npm install -g git-remote-gitopia` so no need to learn new tooling - Built-in incentivization to token holders who also take part in the governance of Gitopia - Token holders share revenue made by the platform - You can mirror your GitHub repositories now using the Github Mirror…

Hey FYI your landing page gave me this error, Firefox ESR 78.5.0. Right now it's a big blank screen with no content. {…} code: "EACCES" errno: 13 message: "Error: EACCES: Permission denied." path: undefined stack: "n@ https://gitopia.org/main.js:277:55609\non/ syscall: "" : Object { constructor: n(t, n, r), toString: toString(), toJSON: toJSON() , … } main.js:339:94885 c https://gitopia.org/main.js:339 configure http…

The "push" icon looks like he's pulling
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