Gitea2Gitea Federation State

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Designs:

• ForgeFed (ActivityPub) -> Design Discussion: ActivityPub support + ForgeFed vocabulary #14186
• Webfinger support -> Add Webfinger endpoint #19462
• Matrix (discussions and issues) [FR] Use matrix spaces for github like discussion and issue tracker. #16065
• Grant application for the implementation of federation #16518
• Nodeinfo endpoints for federation discovery (Feature Request: Implement Nodeinfo endpoints for federation discovery #16758)
• Create pub/priv keypair for federation (Create pub/priv keypair for federation #17071)
• NLnet -> NLnet grant application for federation (deadline October 1st, 2021) #16827

Functions:

• Pull Requests (Support federated pull requests #184) (PRs cross Gitea instances #15392)
• Issues (Federation for organization, repositories and users #1612)
• User (Federation for organization, repositories and users #1612) (Preparing for Federation: "Remote" Users / Federated ID #9045)
• Repos (Federation for organization, repositories and users #1612)
• Orgs (Federation for organization, repositories and users #1612)

Auth:

• federated OpenID-Connect logins (Add support for federated OpenID-Connect logins #1299)
• Gitea as an OpenID-2.0 provider (Gitea as an OpenID-2.0 provider #1310)

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ForgeFed federation task list by @Ta180m

If you're interested in working on federation, a lot of discussion happens in the forge federation Matrix room and Gitea federation Matrix room. Here is a list of useful links and a detailed federation task list with lots of tasks that you can help with.

Forgefriends (a forge federation project based on Gitea) has made some progress on Gitea federation, so you can also help with their Community Action tasks.

[KN4CK3R]

Added Webfinger support in #19462

[leecalvink]

This sounds like an amazing idea!

[melvincarvalho]

Great work on federation:

I'm trying to figure out how to use webfinger

Is there an example of this live?

I've installed the latest gitea from main but I cant seem to work out what string to put in /.well-known/webfinger?resource= or maybe my email is private in the system, I dont know.

I get Not Found whatever I type. It would be really nice to see a working example.

[KN4CK3R]

Did you enable federation in your ini?

[melvincarvalho]

That worked, thanks!

For the record, the steps are:

Add to app.ini

[federation]
ENABLED = TRUE

webfinger URIs

/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:<user>@<host>
/.well-known/webfinger?resource=mailto:<email>

activity pub URI

/api/v1/activitypub/user/<user>

[6543]

well I dont thing gitea's mission is discover federated stuff ... - I created https://codeberg.org/thefederationinfo/the-federation.info/issues/290 to track this idea for the-federation.info ...

but everybody can create there own index as it's an open standart

[lunny]

well I dont thing gitea's mission is discover federated stuff ... - I created https://codeberg.org/thefederationinfo/the-federation.info/issues/290 to track this idea for the-federation.info ...

but everybody can create there own index as it's an open standart

Maybe we can have a decentralized index page so that you can get other instances public repositories information in the current instance.