What's cooking?

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+title: What's cooking on Sourcehut? June 2021
+date: 2021-06-15
+author: Drew DeVault
+---
+
+Halfway through 2021! Things are on-track for my hopes to have the beta ship
+this year. Joining us on the way are 23,228 users, of which 640 are new this
+month. Remember to be patient with them as they learn the ins and outs of using
+sr.ht!
+
+This month's Mumble meeting will take place on the normal date tomorrow, June
+16th, at 16:00 UTC. We'll be on voice.mnus.de, port 64738, in the sourcehut
+room.
+
+## meta.sr.ht
+
+I have overhauled the registration workflow in preparation for the future
+billing changes for the beta, more clearly distinguishing between the
+"contributor" approach and the "maintainer" approach — only the latter
+ultimately being expected to pay for their account. I've also made some
+improvements for admins of third-party instances to make it easier to provide
+billing support following the changes to builds.sr.ht payment.
+
+## builds.sr.ht
+
+Mandatory payment is now in effect for all builds.sr.ht usage, for all users. If
+you require financial assistance, please [email me](mailto:sir@cmpwn.com)
+explaining your circumstances and you will be issued free service credits.
+
+As promised, the writable GraphQL API has shipped, allowing you to use GraphQL
+to submit jobs, manage job groups, and work with secrets.
+
+Additionally, thanks to Michael Forney's finishing touches on the old patchset,
+the NetBSD image is now available as "netbsd/9.x" (aka "netbsd/latest") and
+"netbsd/8.x". Furthermore:
+
+- Fedora 35 is now available
+- NixOS 21.05 is now available, and 20.03 has been removed
+- OpenBSD 6.9 is now available, and 6.7 has been removed
+- Minor improvements have been made to Arch Linux
+
+## lists.sr.ht
+
+The initial draft of the planned lists.sr.ht GraphQL API has been written, and
+you can [read it here][0] (send feedback to IRC). Additionally, Simon Ser has
+broken ground on [go-emailthreads][1], which we hope to use to provide more
+robust email discussion parsing for future improvements to code review tooling.
+Developing this GraphQL API is our focus for the coming weeks.
+
+[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/tree/api/item/api/graph/schema.graphqls
+[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/go-emailthreads