Re: [ELPA] New package: srht

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com> writes:

> Just a quick question which sprang to my mind, and without having
> looked into the details of your package: does it integrate with magit
> and forge in any way?

I've had a brief look and the answer is no.  But I think once more sr.ht
APIs are supported by the package, it might be possible to make forge
work with sr.ht.  But even then, that won't be easy.

I think the basic problem is that with forges like GitHub/GitLab/etc,
once you know the project URL, everything else (issues, PRs, whatever)
can be derived from that.

With sr.ht, that's not the case.  There are many standalone git repos
there which have no project.  Similarly, there are trackers with no
repo.  Or projects with three repos but two trackers.  And there are no
PRs at all but patches are sent to mailinglists of which there can also
be many for one project or one for many projects.

I think the "hub" api will eventually be able to answer questions such
as "what is the issue tracker for project X" or "what is the git/hg repo
for project X" but that's not yet there.

Bye,
Tassilo