Seems promising. Thanks for doing the recon. We should consider this seriously. Wonder what the core devs think of this. Instead of copying (or tagging) them here, would you mind opening a separate thread for this proposal? I don't wanna push something on you but you do seem to have the most information.
Consider listing all the pros and cons of shifting to srht, if you do open a new thread for the proposal. Many people don't know about srht. Unfortunately. Thanks, man. This is exciting! -- Enan On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:27:33 -0700 "akspecs" <aksp...@gmail.com> wrote: > i have some potentially exciting news. > > On Thu Aug 24, 2023 at 6:43 AM PDT, Enan Ajmain wrote: > > Not to speak for Christian, but I don't think he is considering retiring > > the Hg repo because of lack of hosting options. He was weighing the > > cost of maintaining an Hg clone and its benefit to its users. But, > > granted, if one were to have two clones, having them in one site is > > preferable. > > indeed, both the git and mercurial repositories can be mirrored on sr.ht > in fact, i went ahead and jumpstarted the process. > > check out both the git [0] and mercurial [1] sourcehut mirrors of the > official vim repository! > > [0]: https://git.sr.ht/~vim-project/vim > [1]: https://hg.sr.ht/~vim-project/vim > > so far i've done this by hand, but i'd be willing to automate this if > the community likes the idea of a sourcehut mirror! > > > > i really do hope the folks in charge of this project seriously consider > > > this as an option. > > > > I'm a fan of SourceHut and its creator (owner?) Drew. But AFAIK its CI > > feature is paid-only while GitHub's is free. And I don't think srht > > supports Windows at all (unsure on this). Then there is the issue of > > srht being a small company with relatively smaller set of engineers to > > its disposal. If issues were to occur, I would bet on GH solving them > > faster than srht. > > i just asked drew (ddevault) on libera.chat #sr.ht for his thoughts on > the matter. > > tl;dr drew is willing to have vim hosted on sourcehut and provide CI, > and if need be, there are willing members of the community who are > willing to front the costs! > > irc log paste: > +======================================================================= > * 08/27 ddevault we would be happy to host vim, akspecs > * ddevault but I think they can manage to find someone who can > * scrounge up the 2 bucks per month the CI costs at the > * scale of vim > * 00:14 ddevault no windows support would probably be more important > * to them > * akspecs i'd be happy to do that -- i'll relay that info to > * them > * qball yeah, I would have no problem doing that. > * 00:15 ddevault well, let me be less of a scrooge > * ddevault I have a Vim tattoo for heaven's sake > * ddevault we'll cover it > * ddevault assuming that the volume is not so high as to be a > * serious cost sink for us to sponsor > * 00:19 qball lol > * ddevault the CI* volume, to be clear, we can cover any volume > * of email or git traffic or whatever > * 00:20 ddevault as for whether or not we'd have resources to address > * vim's problems, well, maybe not, but unlike github > * you don't have to convince anyone to care enough to > * patch a proprietary codebase for you; you can just > * fix things yourself if sourcehut staff aren't > * available to help > +====================================================================== > > he said it himself. and the man (drew) said it himself: if there's > something we find lacking with sr.ht CI, we have the power the address > that issue ourselves! however, it is my observation that the sourcehut > community and platform is thriving. > > i think many here would be impressed with the wide array of available CI > platforms to test on. > > and i'm certain there would be willing members of the community to help > write these integrations, myself included. > > > I can't give hard data: the documentation of srht are exhaustive and I > > don't have time to read and distil it. Just wanted to leave what little > > I do know. I really would like it if Vim moved to srht, though, even if > > just because of the simplicity and the email-centric workflow of srht. > > Unfortunately it seem untenable. > > i don't see why not. sourcehut's documentation is good. and it would > seem that many here do genuinely appreciate the email-centric workflow, > for which sourcehut provides first class support. > > > P.S. I just saw you said "host and/or mirror." Mirroring Vim source in > > srht would be nice, actually. We can use the free CI on GH and use srht > > for actual devel. Could be fun. > > again, the Vim project has the OK to use CI on sourcehut. we can use > github CI for proprietary target platforms, as sourcehut only supports > open source platforms. > > [0]: https://git.sr.ht/~vim-project/vim > [1]: https://hg.sr.ht/~vim-project/vim -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. 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