Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Timothy Beyer bey...@fastmail.net wrote: At Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:52:59 -0400, James Turner wrote: After a couple weeks of debate, I've decided to shut down Chiselapp.com. I think that the Fossil project should aim to have at least one official host to

[fossil-users] Question about Source forge Fossil hosting

2013-03-29 Thread jim Schimpf
Hi, I have used Chiselapp for hosting some Fossil project but just got a note that he is shutting down May first. So I decided to try the source forge version (http://fossilrepos.sourceforge.net/) . Very easy to create a project but my previous experience with Chisel seems to not to

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread Doug Currie
Thank you, James, for Chiselapp. I'm sorry to see it go. On Mar 29, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: (5) Require unpaid accounts to be open-source? One of the most important things that drew me to Chiselapp, and to using Fossil for personal projects, was free private

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread Martijn Coppoolse
Op 29-3-2013 1:52, James Turner schreef: After a couple weeks of debate, I've decided to shut down Chiselapp.com. As the message on the homepage states, new account and repository creation has been disabled. Access to the website and repositories will remain open until May 1st 2013. Sad to see

Re: [fossil-users] Question about Source forge Fossil hosting

2013-03-29 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:10:48 -0400 jim Schimpf jim.schi...@gmail.com wrote: I have used Chiselapp for hosting some Fossil project but just got a note that he is shutting down May first. So I decided to try the source forge version (http://fossilrepos.sourceforge.net/) . I'd like to

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Timothy Beyer bey...@fastmail.netwrote: At Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:52:59 -0400, James Turner wrote: After a couple weeks of debate, I've decided to shut down Chiselapp.com. I think that

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread Matt Welland
One thing that would be really nice IMHO would be to provide a mechanism to derive a repo from an existing one and have that connection clear and visible on the site. This would have to be optional. Having support for this inside a single fossil would be ideal from my perspective but I understand

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread Remigiusz Modrzejewski
On Mar 29, 2013, at 15:34 , Richard Hipp wrote: Yes, I suppose there really ought to be a hosting service for Fossil someplace So I'm exploring the option of setting up a new one. What if we were to extend Fossil itself so that it was capable of hosting multiple projects after the

[fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread James Bremner
Just wondering why we need a dedicated fossil hosting service. I have managed for years without. For example: Copy fossil repository to dropbox folder; make folder publicly available, or privately share it. Done! Am I missing something? James

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread Steve Havelka
On 03/29/2013 09:29 AM, James Bremner wrote: Just wondering why we need a dedicated fossil hosting service. I have managed for years without. For example: Copy fossil repository to dropbox folder; make folder publicly available, or privately share it. Done! Am I missing something?

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread Richard Hipp
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:29 PM, James Bremner ja...@ravenspoint.comwrote: Copy fossil repository to dropbox folder; make folder publicly available, or privately share it. Done! Huh. Very clever! But surely this technique should at least be documented, right? -- D. Richard Hipp

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread James Turner
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Martijn Coppoolse wrote: Op 29-3-2013 1:52, James Turner schreef: After a couple weeks of debate, I've decided to shut down Chiselapp.com. As the message on the homepage states, new account and repository creation has been disabled. Access to the

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread John Coulter
James Turner james@... writes: [message clipped] The Chisel codebase, Flint, is available under the AGPLv3 license so if your interested now is probably the time to grab it. James, would you consider changing the license to something more permissive, perhaps BSD-style, or at least the

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread James Bremner
A snag with using dropbox, or similar, as a replacement for a dedicated fossil server has occurred to me. When a person interacts with the repo, fossil will update the local copy of the repo and then dropbox will synchronize all the different local copies. On a busy repo where there might be

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Steve Havelka yo...@q7.com wrote: Hmm...could I clone a repository directly from your Dropbox-hosted one? Or push changes back to it? This works to some degree (i've done it before) but breaks down if one or more of the clients involved is offline for any

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread Matt Welland
for what it's worth as compared to github you are missing: Ability to browse and discover projects based on searches, tags and developer. Ability for loosely coupled collaboration (i.e. fork). Community and the momentum that can come with it. Project life beyond the initial developer. On

Re: [fossil-users] Chiselapp.com shutting down

2013-03-29 Thread James Turner
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 05:09:46PM +, John Coulter wrote: James Turner james@... writes: [message clipped] The Chisel codebase, Flint, is available under the AGPLv3 license so if your interested now is probably the time to grab it. James, would you consider changing the

Re: [fossil-users] Question about Source forge Fossil hosting

2013-03-29 Thread Jeff Rogers
Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:10:48 -0400 I'd like to point out this is not at all a source forge version. This is just a regular SF project created by someone -- see for yourself [1]. To my knowledge, SF does not provide Fossil hosting. SF doesn't provide it, but it's

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread Richie Adler
Matt Welland decía, en el mensaje Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service? del Viernes, 29 de Marzo de 2013 14:38:25: Ability for loosely coupled collaboration (i.e. fork). Not exactly what Fossil was designed for, I believe... Community and the momentum that can come with

Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service?

2013-03-29 Thread Steve Havelka
On 03/29/2013 05:56 PM, Richie Adler wrote: Matt Welland decía, en el mensaje Re: [fossil-users] Why do we need a fossil hosting service? del Viernes, 29 de Marzo de 2013 14:38:25: Ability for loosely coupled collaboration (i.e. fork). Not exactly what Fossil was designed for, I believe...