On 2018-06-14 23:09, Warren Young wrote:
On Jun 14, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Thomas <tho...@dateiliste.com> wrote:
As far as I can see until now you got to create an account for every
contributor yourself.
I think that’s a feature in a web service that, currently, has no way to do
email verification. Else, spammers again.
One presumes that if Fossil gets a forum feature with email gatewaying,
*optional* self-registration will come along with it.
Many Fossil instance admins will want to turn such a feature off, since
invite-only is how they want it in the first place.
That's the way I see it too. Fossil has many issues that prevent it from
being used for first-time users, or git users. Once they start off
the're struggling to get it working they expect it to.
That's not because the software is bad (the opposite is the case, in my
opinion it's much better than most of the other version control systems)
but it lacks what standard users require.
It claims to be an all-in-one solution but doesn't allow
self-registration and doesn't support pull requests -> That makes it a
no-go for open-source projects. Most news users expect this to be a
"that goes without saying".
It claims to be easy to install and set up but doesn't come with a
pre-defined exclusion list -> Leaving newbies with megabytes of useless
and even private data in their fresh repositories they can't get rid of
easily again. I remember that it took me over 80 hours to understand the
principles and finally get rid of all the crap in the repository left
after the first few check-ins.
There's not even a single source of information that would tell you how
to permanently delete files that were never meant to be in the
repository. That's a no-go for open-source projects.
Then you get this, just a few minutes ago:
"Can you please just stop trolling? Everyone else, please ignore
"Thomas".
:-(
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