I think the Forgejo project should be given some leniency when it comes to the development of its federation. After all, no other software forge has achieved such a feat as of this date, not even the likes of Gitlab.
The good news is that we don't have to wait for Forgejo federation. We already have software, such as Lemmy, that can supplement as a federated discussion and issue board. To maintain an audit trail, just cross-reference between Forgejo issues and Lemmy posts as needed.
Yeah, you're right. I should start now instead of waiting for popularity to kick in (if ever). I've begun to create one community, per project, on my Lemmy instance.
I'm open to the idea of using Lemmy for discussions, and feature requests, for my open-source software projects. My projects are on a self-hosted Forgejo instance and Forgejo currently lacks a discussion feature. But, unfortunately, none of my projects are popular enough to deserve a discussion board. 😭
I updated my MinIO instance yesterday only to find that many features have been removed (such as SSO). Of course, this is a move to force users to pay for a license.
I will wait it out to see if a fork happens so I can switch to that. If not, then I'll switch to Garage.
You can try out Peer Calls. It's a peer-to-peer video and text chat that uses WebRTC, and is very lightweight. You can either use the flagship instance or self-host your own. One of the disadvantages is that text messages are not stored and are lost when the chat room is closed.
This is the way. Once I went Org mode, I ain't going back.