Gemini on Sourcehut (was Re: News----good, bad, ugly? You decide (was Re: [spec] comments on the proposed gemini spec revisions))

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On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 21:45 +0200, René Wagner wrote:
> > Additionally there is the risk of a self-hosted gitea instance going down 
> > and there are maintenance costs which would be imposed on the hoster. 
> > It would be great to have the source self-hosted but for the stability 
> > and longevity of the community I'm not sure if it's the best decision.
> > I support DJ's decision to use Sourcehut.
> This can happen with a commercial hosting as well. As far as i know you 
> need to have a paid account on Sourcehut to have public repos, 
> so in the end someone will need to pay anyway.

I agree that commercial hosting can also go down, but I think that paid-
hosting is much less likely to go down than self-hosted server is.

> If we move to another source forge of any kind and stick with having a
> single person owning the repos nothing is won compared the 
> situation we are facing currently.
> 
> We need to gather a team of interested people to increase the bus factor
> of the project.

This is a good point; the previous maintainers both eventually burnt-out
- presumably because of the size of the project and a few other factors.
Perhaps 2–4 co-maintainers, instead of a single maintainer, would help.
What are people's opinions on this?

-- 
DJ Chase
They, Them, Theirs