# The Risk of Mission Creep for Coding // 18-11-23

The [Dome][1] is almost functional:
automatic setup of user accounts seems to work,
it is usable, there are two other beta testers
"using" it (I'm already looking forward to more
stories from the Carbon Clique!), the git-shell
access is usable as well, and I have finished
the first drafts of the account request system.

But there are already additional ideas pushing
through: the usual mission creep whenever I've
passed through about 2/3 of a project!

Initially, the Dome was meant to be just a
testbed for the idea of providing git access to
a gopher publication surface.
Now that I've seen it working in principle, I
wonder whether it could be extended to a general
git publication platform, i.e not just for
git-controlled gopherholes, but also for
providing anonymous git access to the user's
repositories. This would provide an ssh/git-only
and non-commercial alternative to the various
"free" git...-services.

Of course there are other similar offerings
already, like notabug.org or gitbooks etc, but
the present solution is in now way intended for
a specific type of content (code, litterature or
whatever), rather on small projects (due to the
Dome's inherent resource limitations), which
makes it more interesting for textual content.

And in addition, as soon as it will be all at
least in beta state, I will release the full
code in case anybody else wants to reproduce
the functionality on a similar Linux-based
server (only on that OS I can do development for
the time being, but modifications should not be
too difficult for other UNIXes, because
everything is coded as shell scripts).

Of course I always hope "mission creep" actually
results in something better! ˆ-ˆ

.:.

[1]: gopher://dome.circumlunar.space