Thanks for the mention on the fossil site. Currently when your logged in there 
is an option pull in the latest changes from a cloned repository, but adding 
the ability to have changes auto pulled in would be nice. I think I'll make 
auto pull and option and set a cron that runs every hour or so.

On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Richard Hipp wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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