The cat was never really in the bag, since all the conversations around this,
and the code written for it, were all publicly availble on sr.ht’s code
hosting, developer mailing list, and IRC channel (#srht on Freenode),
but I’m happy to, at last, officially say that I’ve been working on
sourcehut for the past few months, adding support for Mercurial hosting.

You can find all the relevant details in Drew DeVault’s annoucement (Drew
is the principal developer on sourcehut). There’s also the Lobste.rs comment
thread for more info.

I’d like to thank Drew for being supportive while I figured out how to do
basically anything, and big thanks also to everybody who helped, including the
fine folks on the Mercurial IRC channel.

We still have a whole bunch of bugs and performance issues to fix on
hg.sr.ht, so make sure to ping us about them (on IRC, or the issue
tracker), but it should already be a great experience for small to medium
sized codebases, especially thanks to the excellent build service that
sourcehut offers, and the unique features such as the mailing list service
that comes out of the box.

I’m still in the process of converting my Travis CI build manifests over to
sourcehut’s format, but you can expect most of my projects to show up
on my hg.sr.ht profile in the next few weeks or so.

My GDC talk for this year, “9 Things Learned While Building Frostbite’s Cinematics Tools”, is up on the GDC Vault! Sadly it’s not in the free offering, it seems.

Just like last year, this was part of the Tools Tutorial Day, a full day track focused on tools programming, organized by the fine folks at The Toolsmiths (sign up for the Toolsmiths Slack!).

I hope you find something interesting in this talk!