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Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box? Not that it's difficult (it is) but it is a complete waste of people's time. If I want to fiddle with every aspe

by andos 15y ago

Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box? Not that it's difficult (it is) but it is a complete waste of people's time. If I want to fiddle with every aspect of my development tools, maybe I'm not Fossil's target. Next time I need to set a small coding project (I attend a few OSS hackfests every year), I'll definitely consider Fossil instead of git.

philwelch 15y ago
Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box? No, I just use GitHub. Is there a hosted Fossil service that's as easy to use?
- andos 15y ago
  When the project allows me to go hosted, then the problem is already solved. Thrice. When it does not, but I still need versioning, a wiki and some issue tracking and I don't feel like sporting my masochist hat, good news for me: there's now a tool that does it all and it's a single binary that needs no setting up. And I don't know if there's any hosted Fossil service around, easy to use or otherwise.
- Auguste 15y ago
  The only hosted Fossil service I've seen so far (only been investigating Fossil since I read this article) is Chisel: http://chiselapp.com http://chiselapp.com I have not tried it yet, however, and have no idea how easy it is to use.
ttjervaag 15y ago
> Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box? Yes! :'( Complicated to set up and complicated to maintain. And its black box approach to storing the repositories on disk - using UUIDs as folder names, doesn't inspire confidence if the complicated card house should fall over. I'm not saying Gitorious is a house of cards, but it didn't fit the bill for me at all as a person with limited time to fiddle with a source control setup but still want some self hosted repos. Gitolite ftw. I'd also be suspicious of the integrated features of Fossil, which from a quick look on their site wouldn't be enough to cover what I need anyway. I'd be curious to know what the thought behind integrating everything is. Could be handy for a hackathon or such I suppose?
- andos 15y ago
  Could be handy for a hackathon or such I suppose? That's exactly the scenario I had in mind. I have attended some hack fests myself and, besides the general chaos and lack of coordination, there's the particular issue of how people share code, report issues and write stuff down. Everything is everywhere. It's a mess.
suraj 15y ago
Gerrit is very easy to set up and offers similar capabilities.

by andos 15y ago

philwelch 15y ago

Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box? No, I just use GitHub. Is there a hosted Fossil service that's as easy to use?

andos 15y ago
When the project allows me to go hosted, then the problem is already solved. Thrice. When it does not, but I still need versioning, a wiki and some issue tracking and I don't feel like sporting my masochist hat, good news for me: there's now a tool that does it all and it's a single binary that needs no setting up. And I don't know if there's any hosted Fossil service around, easy to use or otherwise.
Auguste 15y ago
The only hosted Fossil service I've seen so far (only been investigating Fossil since I read this article) is Chisel: http://chiselapp.com http://chiselapp.com I have not tried it yet, however, and have no idea how easy it is to use.

ttjervaag 15y ago

> Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box? Yes! :'( Complicated to set up and complicated to maintain. And its black box approach to storing the repositories on disk - using UUIDs as folder names, doesn't inspire confidence if the complicated card house should fall over. I'm not saying Gitorious is a house of cards, but it didn't fit the bill for me at all as a person with limited time to fiddle with a source control setup but still want some self hosted repos. Gitolite ftw. I'd also be suspicious of the integrated features of Fossil, which from a quick look on their site wouldn't be enough to cover what I need anyway. I'd be curious to know what the thought behind integrating everything is. Could be handy for a hackathon or such I suppose?

andos 15y ago
Could be handy for a hackathon or such I suppose? That's exactly the scenario I had in mind. I have attended some hack fests myself and, besides the general chaos and lack of coordination, there's the particular issue of how people share code, report issues and write stuff down. Everything is everywhere. It's a mess.

suraj 15y ago

Gerrit is very easy to set up and offers similar capabilities.