The personal forge of TEC
Thanks to Forgejo, a painless, self-hosted Git service.
Git is the foremost DVCS, and so I consider a distributed forge system very much in keeping with the idea. Furthermore, considering the ideals and rationale of the free software movement, it seems doubly strange to tie oneself to a centeralised proprietary SaaS offering like GitHub.
Here you may find my personal forge. It currently hosts a few projects that are mirrored to GitHub, and a few projects I've just got here. The long term plan is to essentially move off GitHub, probably mirroring major projects for visibility.
Moving my projects to this single-user forge seems like a strange decision if I'm interested in collaboration (I am), but there are three approaches that can be taken to make this work:
- Emailing patches
- The original way of sharing code! 😎 It didn't stop working at any point, and it's easy enough for me to review, apply, and push.
- Redirecting PRs from mirrors
- I can check out PRs made to public mirrors (using Magit's Forge) and then simply merge it with the main branch and push it to the canonical repository. This works well with GitHub.
- ForgeFed
- I'm wildly excited for ForgeFed, and soon™ it should be possible to make PRs across Forgejo instances 🤯 (and anyone else implementing the ForgeFed protocol).