@maiyannah @cwebber As an example, SSB is developed on #SSB because there's #gitssb. I don't think waiting for git-OStatus or git-ActivityPub to emerge before developing ActivityPub is a good idea, and neither is staying away from the current tools of the trade for the sake of it.
Of course, there's more than one person involved who thinks using github rather than Free project hosting software is problematic, but there are many contradicting forces leading to that decision, and it's hardly unique for the Free world.
AP or OStatus support in #gitlab or #gitea would be really cool though.
On that note, !gnusocial should not distribute a #GoogleAnalytics plugin, or even recommend an external one. It already distributes a #Piwik plugin, and that should be enough; GA is proprietary spyware.
I wrote about GA with regards to #GitLab (and their move to #Piwik) here, which states some of the problems:
@andresinmp Both Mercurial and Git are easy to self-serve via SSH and/or HTTP. If you want an issue tracker to go with that, look for an issue tracker. Complete solutions appear to be #Gogs (what notabug.org runs a fork of) and #GitLab (the crippled aka "community" edition). Phabricator sucked hard when I tried to use it.
@mikael Define good. If what you want is "issue tracker and merge requests" you can try that #gogs (or the notabug.org fork of it) or the crippled version of #gitlab.
@lanodan We have issues with importing stray items when they aren't delivered via PuSH :) What you're asking for is a good feature. It's just that we're all volunteers, so it's sometimes hard to find the time. If you want to, you can add it to the issue list on https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues You'll need to create an account since #GitLab sucks and can't use OpenID providers for authentication.
*trying out https://notabug.org/ as possible new home for !gnusocial* @postblue recommended it. Apparently a git repo written in Go (instead of the usual Ruby) and very, very newly started. So who knows how long they can keep running it? The software is MIT licensed (not much better than #gitlab though, but at least #notabug don't have a separate commercially licensed software - hinting that the community edition is intentionally crippled).
It's either finding an MIT-ish licensed software hosted by a third party, or we host something ourselves (/use Savannah). I doubt anyone would bother overtaking the Gitorious AGPL source code even if that'd be the best thing to do ideologically...