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Off the top of my head, some things that people tell me they like include: - The CI service, which distinguishes itself by being based on virtual machines inst

Off the top of my head, some things that people tell me they like include: - The CI service, which distinguishes itself by being based on virtual machines instead of Docker, thus supporting foreign kernels like BSD and other cool things Docker can't do - The lightweight design and lack of JavaScript - The business model (see latest blog post on sourcehut.org) - There's no proprietary enterprise version, everything is 100% bona-fide free-as-in-freedom software - You don't need an account to participate, you can send patchsets and file bugs via email - Pretty much the only good hosted Mercurial service

elamje 7y ago
Cool. Those are definitely useful and interesting. I don’t think I’ve been enough of a GitX power user to need some of those yet, but I’m sure the day will come. I appreciate the no JavaScript these days! I like rich UI’s but I appreciate the minimalism and trying to do cool stuff with just HTML and css. How were you inspired to tackle this particular project?
- Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
  The same reason I start all of my projects: it didn't exist and I thought it ought to, so I made it.
  - spectramax 7y ago
    How did you get first users to sign up on SH?
    - Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
      I generally use my blog to announce new projects: https://drewdevault.com https://drewdevault.com I'd been talking about SourceHut here and there in passing in various blog posts, and reaching out to people to invite them to a private alpha in the months leading up to the public alpha, then the service was somewhat seeded when the public alpha announcement went up: https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...
sneak 7y ago
I sort of wish you had a docker CI base image, as all of my testing happens inside of it too; My tests are part of a “docker build .” so that they are consistent. The lightweight design is nice, but the main repo landing page, the tree view, and the new repo flow could use a tiny bit of visual polish. I may attempt it myself and send a PR.

elamje 7y ago

Cool. Those are definitely useful and interesting. I don’t think I’ve been enough of a GitX power user to need some of those yet, but I’m sure the day will come. I appreciate the no JavaScript these days! I like rich UI’s but I appreciate the minimalism and trying to do cool stuff with just HTML and css. How were you inspired to tackle this particular project?

Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
The same reason I start all of my projects: it didn't exist and I thought it ought to, so I made it.
- spectramax 7y ago
  How did you get first users to sign up on SH?
  - Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
    I generally use my blog to announce new projects: https://drewdevault.com https://drewdevault.com I'd been talking about SourceHut here and there in passing in various blog posts, and reaching out to people to invite them to a private alpha in the months leading up to the public alpha, then the service was somewhat seeded when the public alpha announcement went up: https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...

sneak 7y ago

I sort of wish you had a docker CI base image, as all of my testing happens inside of it too; My tests are part of a “docker build .” so that they are consistent. The lightweight design is nice, but the main repo landing page, the tree view, and the new repo flow could use a tiny bit of visual polish. I may attempt it myself and send a PR.