[lrem]

Unfortunately, Fossil's web-facing part is somewhat neglected. Up to the point, that the issue tracker for Fossil itself has been practically closed and the docs moved out of the wiki...

I still use it as a nice dvcs though, mainly for the single binary file installation.

[yebyen]

Where do you see docs outside of the wiki? (Duh, the rest of the internet...)

Also, where do you get the idea that the issue tracker has been closed? It's possible that the maintainer has gone on hiatus, and there's not as much activity as there was once, but I see they have fresh issues this week and a release just yesterday.

I think that Fossil is a terrific way to introduce anyone to command line, database, and scm who you intend to sell or gift with a 'database' of any kind. It's very odd to me how many people can't wrap their head around the concept of a file, or database, let alone ./configure; make; make install

I think that SQL is the most accessible language to those people, since it fits a simple grammar and statements end in semicolons, and the fact that Fossil repositories can come packaged into a sqlite database file means that two weeks after you got them to try using Fossil to keep their copy, there should be no magic left in the box, you can show them a database and they should 'get it'.

I have not tried this with anyone, but it should work... of course unless they just aren't trying...

[lrem]

Are you serious? Fossil's docs have been "embedded docs" for quite a long time now. Even the main page is served from a file within trunk (this is the url / redirects to):

http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

For the issue tracker: just try to report an issue (without logging in with a dev account). It has been very long time now that Fossil is accepting issue reports only through email. It's quite an ironic thing to do for a project that's providing an issue tracker, isn't it?

[yebyen]

So, is that the wiki or not the wiki? It says wiki...

I think you're only telling me things that sound like they've been done to prevent spam or addition of spammy content.

I get that a file in the trunk is not the wiki. There is a real wiki, with web browser controls, and it's not what they're using. But it says wiki, and if you're trying to edit it but not a Fossil developer, you're probably doing it wrong... you should have your own Fossil repo/server.

I'll admit I did not try to submit an issue, and I'm not using Fossil right now. I just use Git. My users don't want the timeline on their homepage. shrug

[lrem]

As I said, this is a file from trunk. It says wiki, because .wiki is the file extension for wiki-formatted files. Which you typeset in almost plain HTML, but that's another story.

And, actually, I am a Fossil developer. Or at least a whiner with a dev account. Believe me, I know what I'm whining about.

Finally, Fossil is not for homepages. I guess your devs like having a timeline on their Github...

[saraid216]

Eh, never underestimate the challenge of understanding something from a newbie's perspective.