On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:15 PM, James Turner <ja...@calminferno.net>wrote:

> Alright well I finally managed to sit down over the weekend and get
> something up and running. You can check out the web app at:
>
> http://chiselapp.com
>
> You can currently create an account, create new repositories as well as
> clone existing ones. Repositories are served up like:
>
> https://chiselapp.com/user/james/repository/fossil
>
> Currently I'm limiting 5 repositories per account, everything should be
> considered in an alpha state, but so far everything seems to be running
> smoothly. Let me know if you run into any issues or have suggestions.
> Thanks.
>

Very nice.  Thanks for this!

I added a link to Chisel from the Fossil homepage.  Will the mirror of
Fossil that you have on Chisel automatically sync at some point?  Do you
have a cron job that does that?  How does that work?


>
> On Jul 21, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Richard Hipp wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:53 PM, James Turner <ja...@calminferno.net>wrote:
>
>> I'm currently playing around with the idea and code for a hosted fossil
>> solution. Since each fossil repository already has everything you would
>> need, the solution would be more of a fossil repository management tool
>> on the web, that would let you create/manage repositories and provide a
>> mechanism to serve them (still working on the best solution for this
>> part).
>>
>> I was just wondering if this is a service that people might find useful?
>>
>
> As you have observed, Fossil strives to be a "hosted-solution-in-a-box".
> Just add the host and you are ready to roll.  So I'm thinking that the
> hosted Fossil idea is not nearly as useful as GitHub, since the distance
> between raw Fossil and your hosted solution is far less than the distance
> from raw git to GitHub.
>
> That said, even Fossil requires a host.  So if you don't already have a
> host sitting around (as many people don't) I think such a service would be
> quite useful.
>
> Please keep us posted of your progress!
>
>
>
>> I'm still hashing out my ideas and currently have very basic code up and
>> running (creating/deleting/account mgmt). Since everything is
>> distributed within fossil there isn't any kind of lockin, so it's more
>> of a way to remove the small overhead of setting up a fossil repository
>> somewhere.
>>
>> Feel free to let me know what you all think, or maybe point me to a
>> solution that already exists? Thanks.
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