Code.gouv.fr: Why Etalab's Free Software Pole Uses Sourcehut

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Nice move. Any will/energy to self-host instead of using sr.ht? https://man.sr.ht/packages.md lists Alpine Linux and Arch Linux as best distributions for Sourcehut, there's also Debian though the maintainer wants help https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3C2021062220010... , and NixOS, but the services part still needs more PR reviews: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/133984 (full disclosure, I'm the author of this PR)

Thanks! No, we don't plan to self-host and manage our own instance of sr.ht: the FLOSS unit at Etalab is small, we have just a few repos.

Also, self-hosting a sr.ht would make sense if we can welcome repos from any public agency, but there is no plan for such a project, partly due to the lack of resources.

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