Re: SourceHut for Emacs (was: Gitlab Migration)

[Yuan Fu]

> On Aug 28, 2021, at 6:04 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 
> Reading this discussion made me realize why I'm rooting for SourceHut:
> it's the only such tool I've seen whose goals align exactly with ours.
> Both philosophically (most other tools just happen to be Free Software
> and but are more philosophically aligned with Open Source) and
> technically (it aims for first class email support while providing as
> much as possible of the shiny web features of other systems).

Completely agree.

> 
> So at this stage, I personally don't see much point looking for other
> tools.  Instead I'm just wondering how to get us to use SourceHut
> (i.e. how to resolve the problems that might stand in the way, such as
> getting an instance up and running on GNU machines, starting to use it
> "on the side" to see in practice what issues we'll need
> fixed/improved/added before we can really switch, etc...).
> 
> An obvious first issue is the one seen in Theodor's example:
> https://lists.sr.ht/~theo/public-inbox/%3Cm1r1edold3.fsf%40Frende-MacBook.lan%3E
> where the rendering of this email in the web interface completely hides
> the actual patch being sent.
> 

Maybe we could contact them and discuss the potential to move. They probably 
would be very happy to assist us, since Emacs can be an advertisement and 
testimony for their product.

Yuan