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It is great to see people using GitLab to continue to use Mercurial now that BitBucket deprecated it https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-

• sytse 6y ago
  They elaborated on their choice for GitLab on https://octobus.net/blog/2018-09-18-heptapod-announce.html https://octobus.net/blog/2018-09-18-heptapod-announce.html "Gitlab has been one of the fastest growing platforms in the past couple of years. It has a strong feature set praised by many. We have seen all kinds of users switching from Mercurial to Git just to be able to use it. So the quality and the reputation of the product itself made us look into it. Moreover, Gitlab has an open source version "Gitlab CE", provided under an MIT license. They have a healthy community with significant external open source contribution. It fits with our own open source philosophy and allows us to directly hack on the product core to add support for Mercurial. Also, other open source communities, Gnome and Debian, picked Gitlab as their tool. Having such serious actors of the free software world trust Gitlab was important in our choice."