Not that it's difficult (it is) but it is a complete waste of people's time. If I want to fiddle with every aspect of my development tools, maybe I'm not Fossil's target.
Next time I need to set a small coding project (I attend a few OSS hackfests every year), I'll definitely consider Fossil instead of git.
Yes! :'(
Complicated to set up and complicated to maintain. And its black box approach to storing the repositories on disk - using UUIDs as folder names, doesn't inspire confidence if the complicated card house should fall over.
I'm not saying Gitorious is a house of cards, but it didn't fit the bill for me at all as a person with limited time to fiddle with a source control setup but still want some self hosted repos. Gitolite ftw.
I'd also be suspicious of the integrated features of Fossil, which from a quick look on their site wouldn't be enough to cover what I need anyway. I'd be curious to know what the thought behind integrating everything is. Could be handy for a hackathon or such I suppose?
That's exactly the scenario I had in mind. I have attended some hack fests myself and, besides the general chaos and lack of coordination, there's the particular issue of how people share code, report issues and write stuff down. Everything is everywhere. It's a mess.
No, I just use GitHub. Is there a hosted Fossil service that's as easy to use?
And I don't know if there's any hosted Fossil service around, easy to use or otherwise.
I have not tried it yet, however, and have no idea how easy it is to use.