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by divbzero 53 days ago
I really like the idea of distributed forges, but am not familiar with viable solutions for federation. Are there good options available right now? Or at least a not-terrible option?

(Edit: Turns out there’s a very obvious and widely used option. git format-patch + git send-email is used to develop major open source software such as Linux, GCC, and Git itself.)

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> Turns out there’s a very obvious and widely used option. git format-patch + git send-email

That's fine for pull requests, perhaps, depending on your preferred UX, but what about a bug tracker? CI? Release artifacts?

Another way is to host your own fork on your own server, and send an email saying "hey please pull from this URL and merge if you like the changes"