Eric, Well spoken. Some of the requested fixes are useful (e.g., ticket assignment) and others seem to take the app towards bloat. The best thing about Fossil is its simplicity. I don't want a multiple executable "platform" with configuration (and maintenance) headaches.
If folks want tons of features, grab the source and create your own fork! -- Michael L. Barrow On May 15, 2010, at 3:30, "Eric" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:02 am "Gour" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Otherwise, lack of standard wiki > > I continue to be amazed by all this nonsense about the wiki. > > * There is _no_ standard wiki. The small number of formats I can write > fluently is not the same an the small number of formats you can write > fluently. All you can ever achieve is to change the probability that > someone will have to learn a new format. I do not think the gain (for an > unknown number of unknown people) is worth the effort. > > * The issue is further clouded by the assumption that the wiki is about > project documentation. I think it is about quick notes, discussions, and, > at most, snippets of draft documentation. I want my project documentation > (user guides, developer guides, whatever else, and especially > specifications) to be proper files in the repository, just like the source > code. A project can choose to use wiki format for this (as has happened > with the fossil project), but I don't want my SCM tool to dictate my > documentation format, even though I may then need to find or create a > web-delivery method for my chosen format. > >> & email interface for the tracker > > I don't know if it has a name but there seems to be a law that once a > software product is sufficiently popular people want it to do everything, > i.e. they want it to be a platform. > > Fossil sending email - probably OK. > > Fossil handling incoming mail - far too complicated and too far away from > Fossil's core purpose, in my opinion. > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
