--- title: sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha description: sr.ht (pronounced 'sir hat') is now open to the public for its alpha period. It's a fully open source software forge offering git hosting, CI (builds.sr.ht),... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sr-ht-the-hacker-s-forge-now-open-for-public-alpha-8vuuzu0il twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha | daily.dev og:description: sr.ht (pronounced 'sir hat') is now open to the public for its alpha period. It's a fully open source software forge offering git hosting, CI (builds.sr.ht),... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sr-ht-the-hacker-s-forge-now-open-for-public-alpha-8vuuzu0il og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8vuuzU0iL.png og:image:alt: sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha **[Drew DeVault](https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary sr.ht (pronounced 'sir hat') is now open to the public for its alpha period. It's a fully open source software forge offering git hosting, CI (builds.sr.ht), bug tracking, mailing lists, and wikis. Unlike GitHub or GitLab, sr.ht is 100% copyleft open source, extremely lightweight (pages under 10 KiB, no JavaScript, no tracking), and embraces email-based patch workflows used by major projects like Linux and PostgreSQL. Its CI platform, builds.sr.ht, supports a wide range of architectures and OS images including BSD and Hurd, and is already used by Linux distributions and projects like sway and postmarketOS. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What's cooking on SourceHut? 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