Notices by pere פרא (pere@micro.towards.vision)

@boud ForgeFed's funding source has been NLNet indeed! I've documented the grant application and the whole the email exchange until the recent approval:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/forgefed-nlnet-grant-application/2598

(huge thanks to @dachary for advocating radical transparency)

@dev I'm impressed by your determination and glad to hear it finally worked :)

@aka_dude @forgefed The transaction stuff is inspired by Spritely Goblins, check out their docs:

https://spritely.institute/files/docs/guile-goblins/0.11.0/Transactions-make-errors-survivable.html

In my case it means using DB to persist all actor state, including message queues. I've though of wrapping it in STM, Idk yet if it's necessary, will see :)

I assume you mean run the LMDB transaction in a separate thread that sets a TVar/TMVar after the transaction, and/or get the input data via a TVar, and other threads can then use LMBD via STM?

@gvlx Thanks for the link!

Prioritizing work is great, but I'm not sure voting is a good/just/balanced/effective way to do that. More info about voting systems:

https://ncase.me/ballot/

In the federated forge scene, I hope we will develop a tool based on needs, considerations, approvals and concerns, rather than blunt votes. Inspiration:

- https://convergentfacilitation.org/

- https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/src/branch/main/DECISION-MAKING.md

- Approval/score voting mentioned at ncase.me/ballot

cc @forgejo @forgefriends @forgefed @gitlab

Hi @dev ! I seem to be way more busy that I'd like lately, but I do want to give you some info, even if it's the complete picture I wish I had.

Basically I build Vervis on my laptop:

https://paste.towards.vision/?afe116b1a5ff8ab2#Y1ftS5hegTxdh7cNgg9Qw9qy2Q5GRKP92uVZJVw2XGF

Then upload using rsync to some folder on the server:

https://paste.towards.vision/?834163dad4998fb8#HukMCVoYMKDw15yLxUPJN29MZeUtddHnYSvxHH3HrJBu

I then have a script that runs in cron, as root, that (if Vervis crashed/stopped) copies those files to the liv dir (which I have under /var/lib) and launches Vervis

https://paste.towards.vision/?0661540f6ad84d3a#HL7yDN8fcLnzWL3hXJRryqjVU3gM41kJKsiFitf7kW21

@dev Out of the various key/config files, the ones I keep on my laptop are the ones I generated manually:

- config/settings.yml
- SSH public & private key (in config/ as well)

The rest of the keys are generated by Vervis and kept on the server (but you may want to have a backup of them somewhere just in case)

Does this help? Let me know any questions :)

@trwnh I'm trying to keep it in line with ActivityPub and the current Fediverse. I do intend to use something RPC-like, in a different project and a different name.

Does that answer your question? / Do you have a proposal?

Hi @dev ! I'm excited about people wanting to host Vervis ^_^

Vervis is in a pre-alpha stage, not safe to use in "production" yet, and there's no Docker/Yunohost/etc. setup yet. Do you still wish to deploy it manually? If yes, I'm happy to tell you how.

Otherwise my recommendation for now is to host your code using @forgejo .