What would you want from a forge?
Summary
The Lobsters discussion examines user needs for forge features around version control UX, repository presentation, and collaboration models, highlighting gaps in non-email workflows, code review integration, and distributed workflows. It references Gerrit, Darcs, Pijul, Fossil and ideas like merge queues and heterogeneous CI, and contemplates real-time federated collaboration (XMPP) and publishing/consuming via CI. The thread is a useful speculative piece for developers and SMB teams evaluating future forge design and VCS tooling.