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<span>The roundabout</span>
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<a href="https://roundabout-host.com/roundabout/roundabout">Repository</a>
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<p>The roundabout is a <strong class="emphasis-2">git repository hosting</strong> server software. It is designed to be a complete
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alternative to GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Gogs/Gitea/Forgejo, and other similar services. It
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is still in development and not yet ready for production use. As of version 0.3.0 development
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stage, it supports:
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</p><ul><li><p>User registration
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</p></li><li><p>Repository creation
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</p></li><li><p>User access control
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</p></li><li><p>Smart Git over HTTP(S) protocol
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</p></li><li><p>Web interface for repository browsing
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</p></li><li><p>User profiles and social features
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</p></li><li><p>Forum for repositories, useful for issue tracking
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</p></li><li><p>Notifications, including email notifications
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</p></li><li><p>Pull requests
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</p></li><li><p>Favourite repositories (subscriptions)
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</p></li><li><p>Commit views and diffs
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</p></li><li><p>Themeing
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</p></li><li><p>Static site hosting
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</p></li><li><p>Really basic search
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</p></li><li><p>Markdown, but only for files (see below)
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</p></li></ul><p>For now, it doesn't support, but certainly <strong class="emphasis-2">will</strong> before the 1.0.0 release:
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</p><ul><li><p>Code review features (like comments on commits, for now you'll use the forum), something
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like Google Docs comments is planned
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</p></li><li><p>CI/CD
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</p></li><li><p>API
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</p></li><li><p>Repository metadata (licence, topics, language, etc.)
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</p></li><li><p>Decentralization
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</p></li><li><p>Packaging
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</p></li><li><p>Code syntax highlighting
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</p></li><li><p>Any kind of statistics
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</p></li><li><p>Web-based code editing
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</p></li><li><p>Users changing passwords
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</p></li><li><p>Admin panel
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</p></li><li><p>Forum labels
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</p></li><li><p>User mentions
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</p></li><li><p>Markdown comments (we just need to cache the HTML so it won't be too slow)
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</p></li></ul><p>It won't support:
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</p><ul><li><p>Wikis (why have another interface just for markdown, when you can use your own repo and publish
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it as a static site?)
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</p></li><li><p>Issues (forum does it already)
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</p></li></ul><p>I'm still not sure about:
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</p><ul><li><p>Project boards (what about making label grouping instead?)
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</p></li><li><p>Advertising (don't worry, instances could disable it, and logged-in users could also disable it
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for free, and it won't track anyone, no video, animation, sound, popups, overlays, or JS)
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</p></li><li><p>Paste service (does it really work well with Git? Couldn't you just use a repo for that?)
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</p></li><li><p>Git over SSH or other protocols (do people need it? HTTPS does the same things, and it's easier
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to set up; doesn't require daemons)
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</p></li><li><p>Native clients (Android development is hard, iOS is hostile, and on desktop it's not needed,
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there are GUI git clients that work with any server, for social features web is fine)
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</p></li><li><p>IDE plugins (sounds good, but it's hard work)
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</p></li></ul><p>The roundabout is written in flask, a Python web framework. It uses SQLAlchemy for database
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management. For light UI interactivity it uses htmx and some vanilla JS. It does some GitPython
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calls for basic operations, but mostly calls git with subprocess. Repositories are non-bare
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because this allows the server to understand the repository and can lead to some performance
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gains since querying git is not required. The server is designed to be run on a single machine
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but decentralisation will be added in the future, but it won't be automatic, you'll have to
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choose a server to use.
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</p><h2>roundabout-host.com</h2><p>The official instance of the roundabout, roundabout-host, is hosted at
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<a href="https://roundabout-host.com">roundabout-host.com</a>. Anyone can register and create repositories
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there. However, we ask that you do not rely on it and always keep your repos locally as well.
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Uptime is not guaranteed, and data loss is possible. The server is not backed up.
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</p><p>In the future it may require payment for some features, but <strong class="emphasis-2">the program it runs will always
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be free</strong>. Payment will not be required to lift artificial limitations, but to support
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server-intensive features like CI/CD. Some free usage for useful projects will always be
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provided on demand.
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</p><p>Additionally, we may have advertising on the site. It will be unobtrusive and not track you.
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Logged-in users will be able to disable it for free. We will never have video, animation, sound,
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popups, overlays, or JS ads. Ads will be relevant to the content of the site, but they won't
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be personalised or use cookies. This just means no car, insurance, supermarket, or other
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unrelated ads. Most likely we will use EthicalAds, which is itself free software.
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</p><p>The roundabout program is licensed under the AGPL licence, version 3.0 or, at your option, any
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later version. Whatever I decide to do for roundabout-host, I can't pull the rug from under
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you, you can always run your own instance.
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