What's cooking on SourceHut? Q2 2026

Summary

Hello everyone! It’s time for another quarterly update, keeping you up to date on what we’re cooking up here at SourceHut. Drew’s update This past quarter I found myself mostly focused on “invisible” labor for SourceHut, which will make for a boring update from me this time. Most of my time was spent preparing a grant proposal, jointly with some other open source forges and related partners, to apply for funding from the EU. We’ll learn how that went sometime next quarter! Otherwise I’ve been focused on greasing the wheels and keeping the lights on – doing code reviews, fixing little bugs here and there, handling user support, mitigating rolling DDoS attacks (Conrad will elaborate on these in a moment), dealing with the finances (it’s tax season), and enjoying some rest after dealing with all of the above. In the coming quarter, I plan to write our annual financial report, and to invest more time in user-visible improvements. There’s a lot of work going into our GraphQL APIs now (led by Simon Martin!) which I want to build on. With this momentum I also plan to look into anonymous API access and more standardized and uniform GraphQL API designs, such as support for the connections specification for resource enumeration. We’ll leverage these API improvements to facilitate some long-awaited features, such as linking resource pages (e.g. git repos) back to the projects they belong to on the project hub. I also plan on doing some more work on the billing system, to finalize the migration to the EU, so if this works out all customers will be moved into the EU billing system soon enough. Conrad’s update While I did get good deal done this quarter, some of that work was certainly of the kind I wish I wouldn’t have to do in the first place. Let’s start with the elephant in the room: the DDoS. We still remain cautious about sharing too many details, but we wanted to at least offer a little glimpse into what we were facing. The below graph was provided by our network provider....