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GitLab abandons federation plans! (gitlab.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After 5 years of foot-dragging they finally close the ticket to community protest:

This feature request is being closed as our current focus isn't in this area.

We appreciate your input and contribution to improving our product. While this feature may have merit, we need to prioritize our efforts elsewhere at this time.

If you'd like to provide additional context about why this feature is important, please feel free to leave a comment on this issue. This will help us better evaluate the feature if we revisit this area in the future.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support in helping us build a better product.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (5 children)

As one of the core contributors for even a moderately sized project on Github: HELL NO.

We already get more than enough drive by spam from everyone who just makes an account to complain that our code doesn't do something we never said it did. And if they don't even have to do that? Ugh.

I do firmly believe that more projects need to understand the implications of where they host something (similar to the IOS app that alerts you if ICE is in your area). But if someone can't be bothered to even use a throaway protonmail address to file a bug report or feature request? Quite frankly, what they have to say wouldn't have been worth our limited time anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Then I sign up and verify my email just to find out I need to be approved by an admin. An admin never approves me. I just wasted my time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Hey, you got a free e-mail account!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

You don't have to federate if you don't want to.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But if someone can’t be bothered to even use a throaway protonmail address to file a bug report or feature request? Quite frankly, what they have to say wouldn’t have been worth our limited time anyway.

You don't know that, because you've never once heard what someone didn't say. Their time is limited too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Oh, sure, and the spam box in my email might actually have a valuable offer for me!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We already get more than enough drive by spam from everyone who just makes an account to complain that our code doesn’t do something we never said it did. And if they don’t even have to do that? Ugh.

That's easy to solve by allowing no one to open issues at all. JK.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I mean... that is kind of what happens with a lot of these projects.

As they get larger you get more and more of those obnoxious jerks who will close ANY issue if it even slightly is related to something in the past or isn't formatted correctly and so forth.

Personally? I am a firm believer in working with (actual) users to make things better. But I have definitely had weeks where it is just "Yup. We got mentioned by Youtuber X again" and we more or less ignore any issue not made by an established contributor.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

HELL NO.

"May federate" doesn't necessarily mean "must federate." Your concerns could be met if they include the standard kill switch in gitlab.rb .

(Now show me the kill switch for the bloated crappy web editor)