HI!<p>What it looks like: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/PaHExsp" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/PaHExsp</a><p>Here's Fossil 2.15 running on EC2: <a href="http://54.79.202.57/register" rel="nofollow">http://54.79.202.57/register</a> - this link will allow you to create a new account.<p>Alternatively, the "chat" user (password "chat") can be used if you don't want to make an account. [It used to have the ability to create additional users (with admin privs), with the result that the fossil instance rapidly began spouting SQL errors and I had to reset it, twice. That was fun...]<p>The instance is completely ephemeral. If this comment is more than a week or so old, expect the above IP to be dead (I'll be cycling the VM).<p>And yes - note that it's going over HTTP, not HTTPS :P (that would have taken an extra, uhh, <i>while</i>)<p>--<p>If you're using 'chat': once you've opened the above link, go to "login", login, then locate the new "chat" tab. You can optionally go to Admin > Users and make yourself a new account (the "Add" link is a little hard to see, it's to the far left immediately under the tab bar; also be sure to select "Chatroom" from the far right in the permissions list).
I think this is great. I will upgrade ChiselApp.com to use Fossil 2.15 as soon as it's released.<p>A bit off-topic, but the thing I miss most when I use Fossil (versus GitHub.com) is the ability to do code reviews and leave in-line comments on code.<p>Also, pull requests [0] would be awesome for some of my more public projects.<p>[0] <a href="https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/01d77b7259ea0b00b7065e9a166009d4c98060a7007963ffcdda59aae223b446" rel="nofollow">https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/01d77b7259ea0b00b7065...</a>
> Fossil chat is not intended as a replacement or competitor for <list of chat platforms><p>So what is it for? If it's another inbox to check that's a bit of a productivity drain.<p>I could understand if it was explicitly designed to compete with other chat platforms. This would seem to fit with Fossil's mission well.
So they built their own chat room feature?<p>I feel that's a bit short-sighted, but I'll admit I'm only a random opinionated passer-by. You can certainly do it, but you'll run quickly into issues and be buried in feature requests because like it or not, a chat room isn't just "a couple messages being passed back and forth"<p>Hand rolling your own communication tool is a great way to become so busy you don't have time for your actual work.
Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage.<p>The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord (<a href="https://dev.cancel.fm/issues" rel="nofollow">https://dev.cancel.fm/issues</a>), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.
Has anyone seen a demo?<p>I tried to created an account to see it live at <a href="https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/chat" rel="nofollow">https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/chat</a> but it appears they have /chat locked down to authorized accounts.<p>(Regardless of what others might be saying in this thread, I think this functionality is great. It reinforces the centralization of your dev related work. Plus, presumably they are using SQLite on the backend - so /chat might result in now additional functionality being added to SQLite that might also be beneficiary e.g. removing blocking on writes, etc)
As others have said, the fact that this isn't geared as a replacement implies that its an additional distraction on top of established chat.<p>Perhaps a better iteration would be as a consistent proxy to other chat hosts? As in, once configured, this chat feature would mirror to IRC, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Google Hangouts, etc.<p>Fossil users could have barebones but consistent access to team chats without the multiple inboxes problem? Or they could use the established chat host directly and never look at this chat again.
Where are the screenshots?? How infuriating is it to go to a project's homepage that has a UI and not see any goddamn screenshots. This is absolutely table stakes if you want me to use your product.<p>edit: Oh haha, the website is literally Fossil. Ok but I wanna see what the chat UI and other stuff looks like.
All I can think is that it seems a bit early for April Fool's jokes.<p>It isn't clear what makes bundling a chat program into your SCM beneficial. The only benefit I can see is linking to other things in the SCM like wikis and issues, but since these are available on the web anyways you can just use regular URLs in any old chat app.<p>The other possible benefit would be keeping chat with you for local searching and keeping it with the history of the repo, however this is designed to be ephemeral so throwing that possible benefit away. (I guess you are supposed to use Forums for that <a href="https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/forum.wiki" rel="nofollow">https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/forum.wiki</a>)<p>I'm not a Fossil user, so maybe I just don't understand, but I see little to no value in this feature.