So what you're saying is that we need federated git.

I remember Sourceforge, bitbucket, and a host of other "source" servers. GitHub was nice for a while, but its just another iteration of the same. Heck a lot of the major repos (like Linux for example) only do mirrors to GitHub. The same with codeberg, Gitlab, and other centralized services.

At my last few jobs, we couldn't host on GitHub because of HIPPAA compliance. It was fine. Self hosting git is VERY common in quite a few industries.

On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.

So we need a free & federated identity provider to sign us up as easy as 123 there.

i am still rooting for patch requests to become more mainstream, it seems like the best possible solution. it just needs some discoverability.

Adding Oauth with GitHub and GitLab is pretty easy