Greetings! I’m happy to share that our community has surpassed 20,000 users this month. 708 new faces have joined our ranks, bringing the total to 20,355. We’ve become a pretty big community! Please be friendly and patient with them as they learn the ropes. This month’s “what’s cooking” is somewhat deficit in interesting user-facing developments, but I will dutifully report our progress nonetheless.
Our next public Mumble conference will be held tomorrow at 16:00 UTC, on voice.mnus.de, port 64738, in the sourcehut room. Feel free to join us to share your thoughts and ask your questions. I’ll see you hear you there!
General news
We’ve upgraded (most of) our infrastructure to Alpine Linux 3.13, and made sr.ht packages available to any admins who are running third-party instances. A quick reminder that any such admins should be subscribed to the sr.ht-admins mailing list to receive this and other important announcements that affect your instance.
We will have to schedule a second round of upgrades for our hardware hosts sometime in the next few weeks. It’ll be announced in advance on sr.ht-announce and on status.sr.ht when the time comes.
todo.sr.ht
Most of our progress this month is in the new todo.sr.ht GraphQL API, which is going well. I hope to ship an initial read-only version to production before the next status update.
builds.sr.ht
Not technically an update for builds.sr.ht, but rather for the software which submits build manifests: we’ve started developing some standard environment variables which are set by git.sr.ht, hub.sr.ht, and so on, when submitting builds. You can use these to programmatically find out why your build was submitted, and access other context-specific details. Check out the docs here.