Originally posted by starshipeleven
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Gitlab is still trying to get the finer points of Federation worked out.
Web site you still have to log in to say who you are. Email solution you sign who you are and it done.
The reality is for something like Gitlab to be able to replace the Linux kernel mailing list system you will need Federation to work with disruption tollerance. You will need means for a user to be able to change between federated servers and still be identify as them as well.
One day we may have something good enough to replace the Linux kernel mailing list solution. But as of today I know of nothing good enough yet.
Yes it possible that we could have gitlab make something that is more disruption tolerant than a mailing list in future but it does not have that feature yet.
Think about this we are still using car wheel base designs that are over 100 years old because the design works not that we cannot do better. The reality is the Linux kernel mailing lists works around a problem that needs to be solved in the alterative on offer.
Awesomeness has a real big baby and bath water problem. As in wanting to get rid of having to deal with mailing lists and not seeing in the bath water of mailing lists there is a baby of simple federation and disruption tolerance. So replacement need to keep the baby of that feature basically.
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