SourceHut is open source code hosting with Git and Mercurial repos, CI builds, email patch review and ticket trackers, run at sr.ht or on your own servers.
SourceHut lets a software project run its whole development process over open standards, with patches sent by email, discussion on mailing lists and chat over IRC. It is built and operated by SourceHut, an independent company registered in the Netherlands. Every service is free and open source software. The hosted platform at sr.ht is in public alpha, and pages carry no tracking or advertising and need no JavaScript. git.sr.ht hosts public, private and unlisted Git repositories, and hg.sr.ht gives Mercurial the same first-class support. builds.sr.ht runs fully virtualised builds on Linux distributions and BSDs from a .build.yml manifest. A developer can submit ad-hoc jobs without pushing and log in over SSH after a failed build. lists.sr.ht keeps threaded, searchable mail archives and adds web tools for reviewing patches. The ticket trackers hold actionable tickets, accept reports by email and can stay private for security issues. chat.sr.ht, man.sr.ht wikis, srht.site static hosting and paste.sr.ht round out the suite, tied together by hub.sr.ht. SourceHut suits open source maintainers and developers who already review code by email and want tools that follow that model. Projects that need CI on BSD systems as well as Linux fit it, as do people who work without JavaScript or prefer a terminal. Organisations that must keep code on their own hardware can install their own instance and move data between it and sr.ht. One account opens every service, and outside contributors can send patches and file tickets without registering. Work usually starts with a push to git.sr.ht, which triggers a build whose results go out by email or webhook. Contributors mail patches to a project list with git send-email, and maintainers review them in the archive. A commit trailer such as "Closes" with a ticket link resolves the bug when the commit is pushed. The hut command-line tool scripts the same steps through the GraphQL API and exports a whole account with one command. Project chat runs on any IRC client connected through the chat.sr.ht bouncer, so review, history and bug reports stay reachable from a mail client or a terminal.
Pricing
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Amateur hackers
$4 per month
Per month per account, VAT excluded; renews automatically at the end of the selected term
- Also priced at EUR 4 a month
- Full access to all services, including builds.sr.ht and chat.sr.ht, which need a paid account
- No difference between the tiers besides price
- Contributing to other people's projects needs no paid account; financial aid on request
- Payment uses the payment processor's non-free JavaScript
- Public alpha; the list of services may change
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Typical hackers
$8 per month
Per month per account, VAT excluded; renews automatically at the end of the selected term
- Also priced at EUR 8 a month
- Full access to all services, the same as every other tier
- Pick the tier according to your means
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Professional hackers
$12 per month
Per month per account, VAT excluded; renews automatically at the end of the selected term
- Also priced at EUR 12 a month
- Full access to all services, the same as every other tier
Features
- Not included: Pull or merge request workflow
- Not included: Protected branches with required approvals
- Not included: Code owners for automatic reviewer requests
- Included: Built-in CI/CD pipelines
- Not included: Git LFS for large binary files
- Included: Built-in issue tracker per repository
- Included: Repository wiki and hosted static pages
- Not included: Package and container registry
- Not included: Repository import from other hosts
- Not included: Dependency vulnerability alerts
- Not included: Secret scanning on push
- Not included: Hosted cloud development environments
- Included: Fine-grained repository permissions
- Not included: SAML single sign-on for the organization
- Not included: Organization audit log
- Included: Self-managed installation option
- Not included: Free tier with private repositories
Additional Features
- Public, private and unlisted Git repositories
- Mercurial hosting with hg.sr.ht
- builds.sr.ht virtualised builds on Linux and BSD
- Build manifests in .build.yml
- Ad-hoc build jobs without a push
- SSH login into failed builds
- Post-build email and webhook triggers
- lists.sr.ht threaded, searchable mail archives
Best for
- open source maintainers who review patches by email
- projects that need CI on BSD as well as Linux
- developers who browse without JavaScript
- organisations that self-host their development tools
- Mercurial users who want a hosted home
- communities that coordinate on mailing lists and IRC
- developers who prefer a terminal to a web interface
Use cases
- hosting Git or Mercurial repositories
- running CI builds on every push
- debugging a failed build over SSH
- reviewing patches sent with git send-email
- running a project mailing list with public archives
- tracking bugs with tickets filed by email
- taking private security reports
- publishing a project wiki from a Git repository
- hosting a static website on srht.site
- keeping an IRC connection online with a bouncer
- exporting all account data with hut
- running a self-hosted SourceHut instance
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