Is there a CLI? I can't download yet another Electron app and waste 90MB on another Chromium instance.
Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
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Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#32i think this is technically interesting, but i'm curious in practice what it gives project maintainers over hosting their own gitlab instance or similar...
Good question. I know of a few projects hosting their own GitLab instance, the problem is that this requires me to create a new account/identity for each of these instances. This is a far cry from what GitHub brought, which was a single "place" and social network where you could browse and contribute to all projects with the same account.
Radicle attempts to take back control (just like running your own instance), but without giving up network effects.
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#33This looks fun, will give it a go. The inbuilt funding sounds interesting, is that like bounties on issues? Or more like Patreon sponsorships?
More like the latter. The first funding feature we are launching will allow you to set a monthly budget and have it split amongst a set of users/maintainers of your choosing.
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You need internet for pull and push. I think(hoping) that they meant within a LAN it could work without internet.
(I'm not shooting the messenger here) If so, that would mean pushing/pulling within the LAN only... which Git supports already
You can't push within LAN and then have that automatically available when online to the wider network, unless you have some form of continuous replication to some public-facing host. This is what Radicle does for you.
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#35I don't understand how using Radicle will free my code as they say in the site. So,how is using Radicle better than: 1. main repo on https://github.com 2. mirror repo on https://repo.or.cz 3. mirror repo on https://codeberg.org 4. local backup on my device and hard-disk. peer-to-peer is beautiful concept but note that git is already distributed VCS. you can have many remotes and mirrors. Just that p2p is not necessar…
So when GitHub is down, how do users know to pull from your mirrors? How about push?
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#36Is there a CLI? I can't download yet another Electron app and waste 90MB on another Chromium instance.
I feel you. A CLI is on our roadmap, as well as moving to a lighter-weight app container[0]
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#37I wonder if they started on an Ethereum 2.0 L2 implementation. Maybe it can actually be almost the same thing?
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#38What a nice funky design. That front page has a soul, unlike almost everything else I see nowadays.
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#39What 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...
Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, Gitlab and Gitea allows mirror of Github repos with Issues/wiki/PR etc. So, having issues in Github is not at all problem. I just gave you example of Fossil VCS which has issues,PR,etc. baked into VCS itself. Actually,what Radicle is doing is to extend git with p2p and not inventing new VCS with issues,etc. baked in. What i am telling is that p2p doesn't solve this unclear problem and p2p isn't much benefic…
> Actually, Gitlab and Gitea allows mirror of Github repos with Issues/wiki/PR etc. But GitHub does not mirror the issues/PRs from anyone, so it's a very one-sided connection.
That's problem of GitHub.