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This also came as a surprise to me! Not only that but:

> restoring service was delayed until we could get the community maintainer, Ludovic Chabant, online to help

Maintainer, singular!

The only reason i use Sourcehut, and the main reason i pay for it, is because i stubbornly still use Mercurial, and want first-class support for it. With the utmost of respect to M. Chabant, that is not exactly first-class.

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> With the utmost of respect to M. Chabant, that is not exactly first-class.

It would appear that Ludovic Chabant is working full-time at Epic Games. He is unlikely to have the capacity to be on call for Sourcehut.

I think the complaint was aimed at Sourcehut leaning on a sole volunteer for this service, not at Ludovic Chabant

hg.sr.ht would not exist if not for being community maintained; the cost/benefit ratio does not work out in its favor were we to maintain it internally. The deal is that we provide infrastructure and operations but that the software itself is maintained by the community that needs it. I think this is an advantage of SourceHut's free software model and ethic that allows people to build what they need and to get its infrastructure needs met in a way that wouldn't be possible, for example, on GitHub.

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