prefer composition - git cli and git gui coexist well (ive never touched the latter and many have never touched the former)

Dunno, if someone is motivated enough to write a patch, they will spend a (one-time) 2-3 mins to figure out how to send the patch. I don't think it has to necessarily be insanely easy.

From a GitHub replacement perspective, I’m hearing the following as most critical: 1. search (nostr is super weak here) 2. issue tracking (nostr ok through thread following) 3. social layer (nostr is great)

Gm

What about verifying an authorised state when the list of maintainers evolves overtime?

Aren't programmers used to doing git pull / git push? But I don't see why that patching scheme couldn't have a GUI counterpart.