Comment by Kalium
8 years ago
Decentralization is a wonderful idea. It brings with it benefits that are technical, architectural, and social. Yet is also carries with it its own set of costs and risks.
Bluntly, I doubt this will shock the world of software development into being less centralized. The practical benefits of centralization are, apparently, too large to be readily overcome.
(shameless plug) I recently built a tool (SIT, https://sit.fyi) that has decentralizes issue tracking and similar workflows, giving full days ownership and independence of storage and transport. Can be (and actively being) used with Git, or other SCMs.
All I'm getting is a blank page, it seems to be 404ing on https://sit.fyi/bower_components/webcomponentsjs/webcomponen...
There's a known issue with older Firefox. Once the site is updated to the new version, this issue should be gone. Let me know if the problem persists for you on any other browsers! Thank you!
Very nice! Looks cool.
What does your tool offer to make sure I never have to deal with abusive users, server patches, or a split-brain scenario?
It doesn't rely on servers (it's striving to be a "true serverless" application) so server patches are perhaps taken care of with this :)
Split-brain is the "normal mode" of operations for SIT -- it's a decentralized tooling so it expects something to not be available to you until it has been received by you -- at that point it is sitting in its entirety on your computer and you don't need an internet connection.
Abusive users -- depends on a scenario and "gatekeeping" checks -- known/vouched for GPG keys can be used to enforce some policies. Admittedly, this being a new tool, this angle hasn't been worked on extensively (if at all) -- but the way SIT is architectured is to potentially allow for all kinds of scenarios thanks to its flexibility and simplicity.
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