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 # gitea-github-sync
 
-synchronize git repos, and associated issues, prs, and other repo metadata
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+synchronize git repos, and associated issues, prs, and other repo metadata
+
+## things to do
+- [ ] write a nix derivation for [giteapy](https://github.com/dblueai/giteapy)
+	- [ ] integrate it into the shell.nix
+- [ ] define configuration
+- [ ] do the main thing
+	- [ ] standardize the issue, pr, and other event objects
+	- [ ] write a 'diff' function to return the delta between two objects
+	- [ ] return a series of api calls to reconcile the problems
+	- [ ] handle race conditions?
+- [ ] write documentation
+
+## license
+licensed agpl. see LICENSE for more details.
+gitea-github-sync is copyright rndusr, randomuser, stupidcomputer, et. al. 2024