>>> "MF" == Michael Forbes <michael.for...@gmail.com> writes:
> If the Mercurial community could get behind one or a few > alternative hosting options and develop a procedure for > transferring information from BitBucket (ideally, including PR > info, issue info, etc.) and actively promote this, it might help > promote the view of an active, responsive community. > Is it feasible to provide a simple migration plan including some > subset of metadata from BB to something like sourcehut? > *edit: some of this was just addressed in a subthread along with a > response from Drew of sourcehut* > A few comments/questions related to sourcehut (which I am very > interested in exploring, but have not yet had a chance): > * It would really be nice if there was a clear decision path for hg > users to choose a hosting option which will likely be different for > different users. The current MurcurialHosting page is quite agnostic, > but also not very helpful in this regard (I never looked at sourcehut > because it looks like it does not provide online hosting. It should at > least appear in the other categories too.) Is there an opinion about > keeping this page agnostic or could it be restructure to provide a > clearer decision path for users. > * What is Drew's commitment to mercurial? The open-source nature of > sourcehut might make this a mute point, but it would be good to know. > (From the subthread and quick response, it seems like he has a strong > commitment) It seems that sourcehut will not stay free (of pay) > * I really appreciate the rational behind the minimalist design of > sourcehut, but suspect that in it's current form, it would be quite > off-putting for some people. (When I heard mumblings about mercurial > possibly being dead, the fact that the homepage > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ looks professional and up-to-date went > a long way to convince me that this was not the case before finding > confirmation on the mailing list. > While BitBucket's decision is sad, this is a great opportunity to get > behind an alternative and show that Mercurial is really a viable and > competitive DVCS with practical hosting options. Ah well one severe problem is to find a hosting service which would provide the necessary facilities (enough storage space etc) I will play around with sourcehut for the next days. Right now I don't know who to answer an elementary question: How can I share just one private repository with somebody who has a sourcehut account.
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