> To make things more complicated, they also use their a relatively niche version management system instead of git. Which would complicate making contributions

> To make things more complicated, they also use their a relatively niche version management system instead of git. Which would complicate making contributions (if they accepted them). The Fossil VCS actually has a page explaining why it was created, instead of just using Git: https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html Honestly, a lot of those points make sense, especially how Git is perhaps a little bit more complex and tricky to wrap one's head around than it should be, making you think more about the VCS than just what you want to do. To that end, I'd actually suggest that people have a brief look at Fossil, it even comes with a built in web interface and some common functionality out of the box (vs most folks needing to setup Gitea/GitLab or use GitHub/Bitbucket etc. separately): https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki Of course, realistically, Fossil will be dead in the water for most, given that it's still niche and won't have integrations with any graphical software that some might want to use (e.g. SourceTree, GitKraken, Git Cola exist, but I'm not aware of a rich ecosystem of solutions for Fossil, something like Fuel seems dead https://fuel-scm.org/fossil/brlist https://fuel-scm.org/fossil/brlist), or even with any CI/CD server solutions.