Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha • Hacker News Board

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#101

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:01 PM UTC

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #100

Browsing from mobile so not easily able to poke around, hence pardon my ignorance, but what is meant by “software forge”? Is this common terminology? I haven’t heard it before. Initially I assumed this was some sort of web-based IDE, but I guess it’s more of a source control, continuous integration, devops, and deployment system? Is it like Github meets Jenkins meets Jira? It might be valuable to have a more clear ov…

It's a catch-all term for projects which fill the same niche as SourceForge, including GitHub, BitBucket, Gitlab, gogs & gitea, and so on.

>The more I look into it, the more impressive it looks, thanks for the great open source contribution!

I'm glad you like it :)

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#102

Post by Jenz » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:05 PM UTC

Im intrigued by the choice to enforce all lowercase usernames, why is it like this?

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#103

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:14 PM UTC

Jenz wrote: post #102

Im intrigued by the choice to enforce all lowercase usernames, why is it like this?

Usernames must be valid Unix usernames. This is a forward-looking design decision for some interesting features down the road...

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#104

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:24 PM UTC

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Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#105

Post by adem » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:27 PM UTC

As someone who fell in love with Sway a month ago, this is the best opportunity for me to support the work you've been doing. Thanks Drew!

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#106

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:30 PM UTC

adem wrote: post #105

As someone who fell in love with Sway a month ago, this is the best opportunity for me to support the work you've been doing. Thanks Drew!

Thanks for your kind words :) I'm glad you're enjoying sway!

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#107

Post by rambojazz » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

You should make a more thorough comparison with other "100% open source" forges. Your main arguments against GitHub and the like are the license, tracking, and ads. Instead, you make no good arguments for why this tool is so "special" compared to other equivalently free tools. I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but the post looked like a hard sell to me.

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#108

Post by wkoszek » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

Congratulations from an early tester. I'm happy you're making such a good progress on this.

Also happy to see more aliens here appreciating brutalist aesthetics :-)

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#109

Post by kodablah » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #76

jancsika wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Eventually users will be able to add custom base images, which will permit the use of Windows (if you can get an sshd running there, at least). msys2 has an sshd. I use it on a Windows VM runner with Gitlab CI. It's not easy to set up but it can be done.

Microsoft has ported OpenSSH, at least on Windows 10 you can install it as a Windows feature, or pull it from GitHub https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases

I have also successfully run it from WSL

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#110

Post by yellowapple » Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 9:00 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #27

How does this compare to Trac, which is also a 100% free, open source "software forge" (also built on Python)?

One immediate difference is that sr.ht has a publicly-hosted version; I'm having trouble finding that for Trac.

Trac is also not JS-free, so for those who prefer to not rely on arbitrary Turing-complete code running locally without explicit permission, sr.ht has an edge there.

That said, Trac feels a lot more polished (unsurprisingly, given that it has a significant headstart in terms of development resource and time).