Received: from mail.cmpwn.com (mail.cmpwn.com [45.56.77.53]) by mail.sr.ht (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8106C40204 for <~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce@lists.sr.ht>; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.sr.ht; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=cmpwn.com header.i=@cmpwn.com header.b=2r3alMB2 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=cmpwn.com; s=cmpwn; t=1547686463; bh=71ELtTwTPfVNReXsyTzXXLqubMaM6plzynTus4NAvaM=; h=Date:From:To:Subject; b=2r3alMB2GtkyaLTPesJcI3GFSWvXW4yHDmcrtXRcXwNmleszaMjDqfufX/fimLEmR qjD+8YoU8HFUlWKEtGzE91/uNBMDzccxbhbV7ILQPkgOMNlNkM6lpYN/AGuZaYPb/H yA5u6Bqrm8HUoPg2VkCfCpoh58arkXWc59G7GnQU= Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:39:53 -0500 From: Drew DeVault To: ~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce@lists.sr.ht Subject: What's cooking on sr.ht Message-ID: <20190117003837.GA6037@homura.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-GNU: Terry Pratchett Hiya! Sorry I'm a day late posting this, but it's been a very busy week. I have some exciting news to share: I'll be working on open source, and in particular sr.ht, full time! I owe a great deal of thanks to the community here, particularly those of you who chose to buy a subscription during the alpha, for making this possible. Thank you! I wrote up a longer blog post going into detail about my plans to work full-time on FOSS: https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html Please read it if you'd like to know more. I'm depending on your continued support, and I hope that we can build a great community together for the benefit of the entire FOSS ecosystem. For the rest of this update I'll stick to your usual sr.ht development updates. P.S: I'll be at FOSDEM this year, come say hello if you want a sticker! Ping me in #sr.ht on irc.freenode.net if you want to meet up. general news Nearly one thousand new users joined us this month! The grand total is now 6,427. Please welcome all of our new users to the platform. Most of the work this month was behind the scenes. I set up a new off-site backup box and also set it up as a PostreSQL failover, the first of several steps towards making sr.ht highly available. I also wrote about this on my blog if you're curious: https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/13/Backups-and-redundancy-at-sr.ht.html I also spent a considerable amount of time refactoring the way authentication works throughout the service and preparing to add APIs and webhooks everywhere. This unblocks a lot of important workstreams, and you can expect to see it taking shape over the course of the next month. Work on porting sr.ht to Alpine Linux continues, with man.sr.ht being the latest convert. The only holdouts now are builds.sr.ht and dispatch.sr.ht, which I hope to wrap up soon. builds.sr.ht Last month, I said I planned on adding the following build images: - Fedora - NetBSD - NixOS - OpenBSD - Ubuntu ...and 3 out of 5 isn't so bad! Ubuntu, Fedora, and NixOS are now available on builds.sr.ht. I still want to address *BSD soon, but they have special requirements and require more thought to build maintainable images. Thanks again to Francesco Gazzetta for providing the NixOS image! I also put together a page on man.sr.ht listing the supported build images, their versions, image-specific details, and so on: https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md hg.sr.ht Yes, you read that correctly! sr.ht contributor Ludovic Chabant has been hard at work on generalizing large swaths of git.sr.ht to support arbitrary version control backends, and building out hg.sr.ht with it. I intend to integrate his work in the coming weeks and deploy it for your convenience.