a marginal point, but in case you care: the german word for
repository/deposit actually is "Lagerstätte" where the diacritical mark
over the `a' really matters. but "Lagerstatte" sounds really awful (since
the "a" is pronounced like the "u" in the English word `up', while the "ä"
is similarly pronounced to English "a" in "action"). and it simply looks
misspelled ;-). it also seems not to belong to the words having been
assimilated into english after spelling changes (such as "iceberg") as far
as I know.
to make german users a bit more happy you might call it "lagerstaette"
where the `ae' is a widely used "ASCII approximation" of the "ä" (in
germany, anyway). also note, that "Lagerstatt" (the singular form of
""Lagerstätten" (with final "n")) is an exalted way of denoting a bed (and
not a place were to store fossils (or beer ;-)). overall, I'm not sure
whether the name choice was a lucky one...
regards/joerg
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:50:54 +0200, 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
_______________________________________________
fossil-users mailing list
fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org
http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
--
Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
_______________________________________________
fossil-users mailing list
fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org
http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
