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Due to changes in #Forgejo that we have recently taken advantage of, #SourceHut is now properly synced and is now up to date! Furthermore, we also accept patches via SourceHut over email (we have this whole time, but now it should be easier), so feel free to send one over! Just make sure they target the audacity-3.7-rebase branch!

I spent some time earlier in the week with my laptop running on #IPv6 only while running some tests.

Very interesting to note which websites are still reachable.

✅ chaos.social
✅ codeberg.org
❌ sr.ht
✅ gitlab.org
❌ github.com
✅ debian.org
❌ abc.net.au
✅ bbc.co.uk

I was surprised that #SourceHut failed, as IPv6 support was added a while back, so I did some digging (literally - I used dig).

sr.ht is missing IPv6 glue records. Important, but easy to overlook if you run your own nameservers.

As I have been looking for a new home for my OSS projects, I've landed on #Sourcehut, an indie developer platform I've been following for some years.

Sourcehut has a lot going for it - 100% open source, funded by members, you don't need an account to open an issue or start a discussion.

I do think the design of the platform is a little too intimidating to be welcoming to non-technical users. I am worried it may put some people off.

Anyone else considering moving off of github? Discuss?

I think the time has come to opt out of #github
All the conveniences / integrations are really nice, but it's going to be an AI playground / free-for-all for #microsoft
I have been using #sourcehut for a while for some personal repositories, and I will be migrating more and more stuff there. Check out Sourcehut if you haven't already: sourcehut.org/

sourcehut.orgsourcehut - the hacker's forgesourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

I would like to upload the code to storyseedlibrary.org/ Solarpunk art library publicly and accept Pull Requests with any suggestions / submissions people have.

The repository is roughly ~200 MB, can grow up to ~500 in the future.

What would be the best platform to do it, balancing Solarpunk's #floss philosophy with user-friendliness?

Story Seed LibraryWelcome to Story Seed Library!A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!
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@egonw @cdk

Do you all have plans to move off Microsoft Github?

While I use #Sourcehut, most prefer something like #codeberg . Both are EU-based.

I no longer think it's ethical to expect my contributors to agree to share personal data for marketing and advertising purposes, which the GitHub Privacy Statement says they do.

That's in addition to worries about centralized control over most FOSS dev, Microsoft's corporate policies, and the underlying US politics and surveillance.

I know being fully dependent on US-based infrastructure is a bad idea. This is why I have been looking into alternative ways of work

The fediverse and Non-profit code forges

Put your energy & resources into those if you care about digital sovereignty

Say whatever else you like about #sourcehut and I may even agree with you, but: it lets me ssh into the VM for a failed CI run and debug it interactively.

*Each of* Travis, Azure, Github, Mozilla's in-house build farm, Debian's in-house build farm, and CMU's bespoke student homework assignment testing farm has wasted *at least* a week of my life by not having that feature.

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@liaizon Well, gitlab supports merge requests created by email, but it has its own constraints. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/creating_merge_requests.html#by-sending-an-email
Also it's not implemented in gitea:
- issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/29269
nor in forgejo:
- email docs: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/email-settings/
- related issue: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/2371
Efforts at federation at @forgefed are great, but actually, #sourcehut is already federated in some way, via its email-based interaction:
- https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3Ceb82eef4-d88c-7509-943b-9290fd03c8a9%40sugarlabs.org%3E#%3CC81CPE3NS083.120RSZ6DMQTKS@taiga%3E
They do accept PR via email. It's their way to go, actually
- https://git-send-email.io/

Anyway, you can send us attached git-patches via email if you want :)
docs.gitlab.comCreating merge requests | GitLabHow to create merge requests in GitLab.