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1. Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:45:22 JST Sandra

   One way GitHub could make itself a lot better and less hated-by-me would be if they set up a way for people who don’t have accounts on there to contribute with git send-email and/or git request-pull (the latter obviously requires -some place to host repos). They could translate those contributions in the fancy-schmancy (probably better known as super confusing) “pull request” format and interface GitHub-using devs love so much. Their gh cli thing is fun and all but that still requires an account, which is the biggest reason for my hatred of them.

   I registerted on link tree today (mostly so no-one else would snag my name) and instantly regretted it because I don’t wanna contribute to the whole centralization thing. Making accounts on these bad sites means legitimizing them and their bogus claims on central authority over a problem domain.

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:47:11 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @Sandra Huge reason for me to adopt (a self-hosted) SourceHut!

     Even if it means I get pushback who've got a bad experience using email-based git... Hopefully my carefully written docs addresses this?

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:55:07 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @Sandra Yeah, SourceHut doesn't *have* to span multiple servers. I'm running all the daemons on a single server.

   • Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:55:08 JST Sandra

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     • Adrian Cochrane
     @alcinnz
     
     I was looking enviously at sourcehut and being intimidated by trying to install it (since the docs are all like "warning warning warning this project is a super scale project that stretches many servers") but the other day my envy disappeared when I realized that my current setup—plain cloneable repos + a mailing list—is, from a non-maintainer contributor's perspective, not much different from sourcehut. A way to browse the repos without cloning them is the only thing missing, and I'm on that. (I just need spoons. Looking at softserve and cgit as options. But I kinda also don't wanna do anything and just chill.)
   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:58:16 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @Sandra I was thinking of https://git.argonaut-constellation.org/~alcinnz/CatTrap#contributing when I was referring to carefully documentation, trying to put potential collaborators regarding contributing.

     But you might be more interested in: https://argonaut-constellation.org/2023/02/11/services.html

     Hmmm, need to retitle this blog... I'll do so tonight!

   • Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:58:17 JST Sandra

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     • Adrian Cochrane
     @alcinnz
     
     I couldn't even find your sourcehut docs, let alone carefully read them! 🙋🏻♀️
   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 02:04:07 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @Sandra I think I'd agree!

   • Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 02:04:08 JST Sandra

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     • Adrian Cochrane
     @alcinnz
     
     It was the first I was asking for since I maybe need to put up something similar. For now I have https://idiomdrottning.org/git-faq which I'm not super happy with.
     
     
     Unrelated side-note: the tilde before username is such wack design decision from sourcehut (and requires email CLI users to quote it). Tilde means "home directory of". In what universe is a mailinglist a home directory? Maybe if it was /var/spool/foo/frobnication/mailing-list-users/account-list/account-names/alcinnz/CatTrap@foo.bar.example that'd make more sense 🤦🏻♀️
     
     Or, y'know, just the username sans the grawlix 💁🏻♀️