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Are there any active Fossil instances available for free/open source projects? I found Chisel, but am not sure whether many of the projects are active. Also, t

by brylie 8y ago

Are there any active Fossil instances available for free/open source projects? I found Chisel, but am not sure whether many of the projects are active. Also, the design of Fossil and Chisel is s bit difficult to read on mobile.

gglitch 8y ago
If you mean active Fossil repos accessible over the web, there's Fossil itself (https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...), and SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/trunk/README.md https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/trunk/README.md). If you mean Fossil repo hosting, I know of Chisel but haven't used it and don't know anything about it. I don't think it requires much in the way of hosting though. Edit: corrected SQLite URL.
- edwinyzh 8y ago
  or the mORMot ORM/REST framework: https://synopse.info/fossil/timeline https://synopse.info/fossil/timeline
  - gglitch 8y ago
    That is some phenomenal documentation.
jaccarmac 8y ago
If you click through Chisel you can find a few active projects. You're right about discoverability though; It's not great. Fossil's neat because it really tries hard to be decentralized. Because of that the repo is really all you need. Hosting isn't so important when code, bugs, forums, and wiki can be moved by copying one file. The downside is that there's no FossilHub with thousands of projects using similar UIs and conventions. As far as Fossil hosts go, I know of at least one more: https://secure.hydra.ecd.space/ https://secure.hydra.ecd.space/
- bachmeier 8y ago
  I think one issue is that it's really easy to set up a public Fossil instance. It takes about two minutes to get it running if you've got a web server with CGI support.
bachmeier 8y ago
> Also, the design of Fossil and Chisel is s bit difficult to read on mobile. That's just the default. You can easily change the CSS, though it would be nice if you could select from themes created by others, particularly to get one that's friendlier for mobile users.

by brylie 8y ago

gglitch 8y ago

If you mean active Fossil repos accessible over the web, there's Fossil itself (https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...), and SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/trunk/README.md https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/trunk/README.md). If you mean Fossil repo hosting, I know of Chisel but haven't used it and don't know anything about it. I don't think it requires much in the way of hosting though. Edit: corrected SQLite URL.

edwinyzh 8y ago
or the mORMot ORM/REST framework: https://synopse.info/fossil/timeline https://synopse.info/fossil/timeline
- gglitch 8y ago
  That is some phenomenal documentation.

jaccarmac 8y ago

If you click through Chisel you can find a few active projects. You're right about discoverability though; It's not great. Fossil's neat because it really tries hard to be decentralized. Because of that the repo is really all you need. Hosting isn't so important when code, bugs, forums, and wiki can be moved by copying one file. The downside is that there's no FossilHub with thousands of projects using similar UIs and conventions. As far as Fossil hosts go, I know of at least one more: https://secure.hydra.ecd.space/ https://secure.hydra.ecd.space/

bachmeier 8y ago
I think one issue is that it's really easy to set up a public Fossil instance. It takes about two minutes to get it running if you've got a web server with CGI support.

bachmeier 8y ago

> Also, the design of Fossil and Chisel is s bit difficult to read on mobile. That's just the default. You can easily change the CSS, though it would be nice if you could select from themes created by others, particularly to get one that's friendlier for mobile users.