From the experience of someone who used Fossil for small and large projects (solo and in teams) for 3-4 years, they aren't very good. The bug tracker can be he

From the experience of someone who used Fossil for small and large projects (solo and in teams) for 3-4 years, they aren't very good. The bug tracker can be heavily customized, and get ready to do so, but it still has irritating limitations that are, when I checked a few years ago, WONTFIX limitations. Sending emails on bug tracker activity is one. (I've seen people talk about workarounds, like writing cron jobs to monitor the RSS feed of a fossil repo and send off an email, and, frankly speaking that is not a very good solution. It's going to be a little fragile and it's not administerable by non-scripting-savvy folks.) The wiki is also kinda wonky. Doing file attachments is weird, or was when I used it, the markup is non-standard (not mediawiki, not markdown), etc. The worst part is, while I can learn to work around the various oddities that basically all spring from Fossil being the product of folks who don't use a lot of other tools (and consequently don't see what other tools have essentially standardized on), I can't reasonably expect my less-savvy team members to be as dedicated in learning this one tool, because, ultimately, for what? How is fossil so much better than github or whatever? It didn't get us any farther, except now people have to learn some quirky new interface stuff. Day-to-day, zero benefit.