[$] A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Many projects have adopted the "GitHub style" of development over the lastfew years, though, of course, there are some high-profile exceptions that still use patches and mailing lists. Many projects are leery of puttingall of their project metadata into a proprietary service, with limitedmeans of usefully retrieving it should that be necessary, which is whyGitLab (which is at least "open core") has been gaining some traction. A recently announcedeffort looks to kind of bridge the gap; Drew DeVault's sr.ht ("the hacker's forge")combines elements of both styles of development in a "100% free and open source softwareforge". It looks to be an ambitious project, but itmay also suffer from a lack of "social network" effects, which is part ofwhat sustains GitHub as the forge of choice today, it seems.