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We have been using Gitness to develop Gitness for the last 6 months. We do mirror on GitHub as a backup. But we also want to meet the community where they exist today, which is GitHub.

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If you don't mind me asking since you're here: will you be implementing ForgeFed in Gitness [0]? My sense is that federation is our best hope for breaking GitHub's network effects, and I'd love to see more projects like yours join the protocol.

[0] https://forgefed.org/

Thank you for the suggestion. We will look into it.

Could you provide some sort of status report about what Gitness actually is? According to the Git repo it looks like it started Feb 2, 2014, and Brad Rydzewski did the vast majority of the work on the project (e.g., 100x more than anybody else), and is still involved now. I downloaded it and tried it out (which is VERY easy to do), and the actual software seems to be a Typescript frontend and Go backend, with Monaco for a code editor, and nice diff view. I tried importing a very large repository, and it took a while, but did fully work, and browsing the repo after import was fast. It's Apache-2.0 licensed (thanks!). Was it open source from the beginning?

Gitness brings code hosting and pipeline execution together. It builds on top of the Drone continuous integration system, which Harness acquired. Brad was directly involved, but this time he had the help of 12 full time developers

Do you do code reviews during development?

I ran it locally and couldn't find my way to go from a conversation to its code context. Nothing is clickable. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/kk8wLIK

Thank you for the feedback. We are working on addressing this soon.

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