Comment by yrashk
8 years ago
(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.
I could thank you for your time, for your effort, for humoring me. Etc. etc. etc.
I'll cut to the chase.
Your answer is basically "You have to do extra work". Which is the wrong answer when trying to replace tools whose major selling is reducing the amount of maintenance work I have to do. This response, unfortunately, commits the basic error of trying to solve a social problem with a technological solution. I don't want to take on the work of guarding the gates. I don't want to guard against potential abuse. I want these things done for me, so I can focus on the parts I care about.
The ability to put in work to monitor abuse and access control in a decentralized manner is not a significant improvement over the ability to do so in a centralized manner.
Oh, and if it interacts with other computers at all then I have to worry about server maintenance. A machine is only truly serverless in isolation. Which would make your tool interesting, but potentially less than maximally useful.
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