Minor grammatical correction in last email:
s/Stephan and me/Stephan and I/


On 30 March 2015 at 16:20, Vikrant Chaudhary <vikr...@webstream.io> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been working on a project named "Lagerstatte", a front-end for
> Fossil repositories. The browser facing part is written in Ember.js,
> while server runs a Ruby on Rails application which acts as a JSON
> endpoint. Access to Fossil database is provided by Stephan's excellent
> libfossil library.
>
> I'd also like to emphasise that this a "very early" announcement. The
> project is far from even a beta stage. With this email, my sole
> intention is to make Fossil community aware of the project.
> Lagerstatte is a work-in-progress and may do anything it likes up to
> and including eating your laundry.
>
> Features that you can evaluate today:
>
> * Navigating through files.
> * Viewing latest revision of wiki pages.
> * Access the Fossil repositories through Git protocol (readonly).
>
> Planned features:
>
> * Installation instructions & documentations.
> * on-premise behind-firewall installations.
> * Fully featured code, wiki, and issues management.
> * Email notifications.
> * LDAP / OpenID Connect authentication.
> * Searching across multiple repositories.
> * Basic elements of social networking & project discovery.
> * Unified login across all repositories.
> * One-click repository setup.
> * Fault-tolerant and high-availability storage of Fossil repositories.
> * Cheap forking (I have some ideas on how to achieve this in 
> Fossil/libfossil).
> * Cross-fork merge-requests.
> * API, Notifications, Webhooks, & OAuth for integration with third-parties.
> * Graphs & Statistics.
>
> A preview of Lagerstatte-in-action is available at https://codeflow.io/
>
> Lagerstatte:
> Web/Fossil: https://codeflow.io/lagerstatte/lagerstatte
> Git: http://git.codeflow.io/lagerstatte/lagerstatte
>
> fossil_ruby:
> (a Ruby wrapper for libfossil)
> Web/Fossil: https://codeflow.io/lagerstatte/fossil_ruby
> Git: http://git.codeflow.io/lagerstatte/fossil_ruby
>
> libfossil:
> Web/Fossil: https://codeflow.io/libfossil/libfossil
> Git: http://git.codeflow.io/libfossil/libfossil
>
> Fossil:
> Web: https://codeflow.io/fossil/fossil
> Git/Fossil: Too awesome to handle by currently inefficient git
> conversion code. I've some ideas on improving this, which I'm working
> on.
>
> I'll be adding more repositories soon to the list (SQLite3, SQLite4,
> Tcl, Tk, and more). If you'd like to see your repository at Codeflow,
> let me know.
>
> Subscribe to mailing-list for discussions and development updates!
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lagerstatte
> Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome.
>
> About name:
> "A Lagerstätte is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary
> fossils with exceptional preservation." -
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagerstätte
>
> Stephan and me had a lengthy discussion on transliteration of
> "Lagerstätte" to ASCII. Candidates were "Lagerstaette" and
> "Lagerstatte". (more context: http://german.stackexchange.com/q/4992).
> Following up on the trend of several previous German loanwords in
> English, we decided to go with "Lagerstatte".
>
> Cheers.
> - Vikrant
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