Re: Migrating to sourcehut - what's missing?

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

john muhl <email@johnmuhl.mx> writes:

> On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 21:24 +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>> 
>> So that would be something like git.sr.ht/~eliz/emacs or
>> git.sr.ht/~lars/emacs?  This makes me wonder how "hard coded" the
>> user
>> names are in the sourcehut code base.  Assuming the GNU project
>> would
>> host its sourcehut instance on the domain git.gnu.org, srht.gnu.org,
>> source.gnu.org, or whatever, would it still be possible to remove
>> the
>> "~..." username part? (I know this is as minor of an issue as it
>> gets,
>> it's just curiosity).
>> 
>> Until then, it seems that the username "~gnu" is not taken.  Maybe
>> someone more entitled than me could mirror a few repositories over
>> there
>> for testing purposes?
>> 
>
> organizations on sourcehut are still a work in progress. Drew has
> mentioned a few times that if you setup a work-around for the lack of
> orgs now (e.g. a user named gnu, emacs, etc.) there will be a
> migration path once the work on orgs is done. so i think the
> transition from ~user to ^org is either not very important or will be
> handled as support for organizations is deployed.

This isn't exactly what I meant, maybe to rephrase it in terms of
organisations: Can you have a single-organisation instance, where the
git repository for Emacs wouldn't be "whatever.org/~gnu/emacs",
"whatever.org/^gnu/emacs" but just "whatever.org/emacs"?

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	Philip Kaludercic