Does anyone have any thoughts on self-hosting https://sourcehut.org/? It seems like a very interesting option to me
Sourcehut assumes you know your way around Linux and want to spend the time to understand how to host the services you need. The expectation will be that, if you run into issues, you're willing to debug and submit patches if necessary.
Alternatives like Gitea/Gogs are hostable as essentially single binaries and have clear guides on how to host on Docker. They're less feature rich, but more widely used in a self hosting context.
If you're looking for a middle ground, I've had good luck hosting Gitlab but it will consume more server resources than anything mentioned thus far and be a little more difficult to keep up to date
How so?
There's no push-button magic for it, presumably because SourceHut the company (ie. Drew) isn't interested in running it in containers, but nothing is stopping you from trying. It's different from most Python software in that you're expected to use your OS's package manager and standard service tooling.
> (ie. Drew) isn't interested in running it in containers, but nothing is stopping you from trying.
Yes, he is. I asked in SourceHut's Freenode channel and Drew's comments were literally, "we don't take kindly to your kind around here, don't ask again."
I've been thinking about this a lot. often I hear (specially old-guard) hackers talking about easy and simplicity but they really mean it's familiar to them.