| 1 | # Steid |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The source of truth for everything in a developer's or organization's portfolio. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ## Vision |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Steid is a developer/org identity and portfolio platform. It's where you host your |
| 8 | code, your writing, your projects — everything you do, in one place, under your |
| 9 | control. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Git repos are a core feature, not the whole product. Blogs, documentation, project |
| 12 | showcases, and anything else a dev or org wants to present lives here too. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Personal-first, but organizations can collaborate on it. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | **What makes it different from Gitea/Forgejo:** those are GitHub clones scaled down. |
| 17 | Steid is portfolio-first — the profile page is the product, and repos are one kind of |
| 18 | thing that appears on it. That framing should win any tie-break. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ## Core Principles |
| 21 | |
| 22 | - **Fast** — Rust, minimal overhead |
| 23 | - **Reliable** — correct first, then optimize |
| 24 | - **Personal-first** — great for a single dev, scales to orgs |
| 25 | - **Identity-centric** — everything is built around who you are (user/org); auth is |
| 26 | designed in from day one, not bolted on |
| 27 | |
| 28 | ## Stack |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Starting intent, not settled decisions. Each one gets a record in |
| 31 | [decisions/](decisions/) when it's actually made and confirmed in this build. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | |
| 34 | |
| 35 | | Web framework | Topcoat (tokio-rs) | |
| 36 | | Git protocol | shell out to the `git` binary | |
| 37 | | SSH transport | embedded russh server | |
| 38 | | Crate layout | single crate | |
| 39 | | Ownership | personal org owns repos | |
| 40 | | Database | SQLite via sqlx | |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Architecture and conventions: [architecture.md](architecture.md). |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ## Milestone Ladder |
| 45 | |
| 46 | This repo is a from-scratch rebuild on Topcoat. Milestones 1–4 were built and |
| 47 | verified end-to-end in a previous attempt — see [progress.md](progress.md) for what |
| 48 | that proved. Treat that code as reference, not as a baseline. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | |
| 51 | |
| 52 | | 0 | **Skeleton** — Topcoat app boots, config, one page, SQLite wired | nearly done | |
| 53 | | 1 | **Identity** — users, orgs, memberships, sessions, registration policy | not started | |
| 54 | | 2 | **Repo model** — repo records + bare repos on disk | not started | |
| 55 | | 3 | **Git over SSH** — clone and push via embedded russh | not started | |
| 56 | | 4 | **SSH key auth + authz** — pubkey → user, membership-gated push/clone | not started | |
| 57 | | 5 | **Repo browsing** — tree, blob, commit log in the web UI | not started | |
| 58 | | 6 | **Portfolio** — blogs, pages, project showcases | not started | |
| 59 | | 7 | **Collaboration** — issues, PRs, review | not started | |
| 60 | | 8 | **API / federation** | not started | |
| 61 | |
| 62 | Milestones 5–8 have never been built. Everything below 5 has a working reference |
| 63 | implementation to crib from. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | **One numbering scheme.** The previous attempt kept two (a roadmap ladder and a |
| 66 | separate build log with conflicting numbers) and they drifted apart within three |
| 67 | milestones. If the plan changes, edit this table — don't start a second list. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Milestone 0 is broken into steps in [current.md](current.md). |