HMC Weekly Recap - 6/16

Mariano Uvalle is our server admin. You may reach the author at mariano@handmadecities.com

Dear Handmade folks,

As many of you know, I started a new job a few months ago, and it’s taken way more of my free time than I anticipated. Luckily things are stabilizing now, so I hope to tackle more of our backlog in the upcoming weeks. Speaking of:

Permalink for Public Roadmap

roadmap.handmadecities.com hosts the TODO items for community / server work. Currently it simply redirects to an instance of Vikunja that I self-host; we might consider migrating to another tool in the future as the number of collaborators grow, but the link above will remain stable.

I’ve onboarded three contributors to the HMC Gitea so far. I kindly ask them to take a look at the roadmap and let me know which tasks they’re interested in. If you’re also interested in helping out, email me at u.g.a.mariano@gmail.com (sadly, my @handmadecities email is still down)

Using #Maintenance for Community Requests

We encourage community members to post their community / server requests under #maintenance in the Handmade Revolt. The requests can be about Revolt itself, but also anything to do with handmadecities.com: the website, newsletters, RSS feeds, RSVP system, the upcoming library, etc.

This lets Abner and I review everything from a single place and then decide whether to take something on. Finally I can triage the tasks and assign them to interested contributors.

Gitea Runners

The initial testing for the dedicated CI/CD VPS went poorly, it was undersized and container image builds for handmade revolt were timing out. Abner was kind enough to get us a larger VPS instance. My final testing today went much better, and image builds now succeed on our runner. I’ll keep stress testing over the next few days.

Your server admin,
Mariano