Fossil Chat

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Post by brobdingnagians » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 10:51 AM UTC

Re: Fossil Chat

#2

Post by HeckFeck » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:06 PM UTC

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage.

The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord (https://dev.cancel.fm/issues), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

Re: Fossil Chat

#3

Post by arsome » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:09 PM UTC

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

SQLite is probably the best known user of it

https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md

https://www.sqlite.org/whynotgit.html

Re: Fossil Chat

#4

Post by Tomte » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:09 PM UTC

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

SQLite obviously. Probably some other projects in the Tcl and SQLite world.

Re: Fossil Chat

#5

Post by sigzero » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:10 PM UTC

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

The TCT (Tcl Core Team) uses it heavily. They seem to like it a lot.

Re: Fossil Chat

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Post by KwanEsq » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:10 PM UTC

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

SQLite famously does so:

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src

Re: Fossil Chat

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Post by mgreenleaf » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:15 PM UTC

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

I use it for most of my projects, with git covering the rest of them. I prefer the cli usage, philosophy, single binary / single file repository, and having all the notes/issues transfer across when I push makes it easier to develop and test across windows/linux/bsd. Autosync and other things are well-thought out details too; generally feels well designed. Otherwise, day to day usage isn't much different.

Re: Fossil Chat

#8

Post by danpalmer » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:15 PM UTC

> Fossil chat is not intended as a replacement or competitor for

So what is it for? If it's another inbox to check that's a bit of a productivity drain.

I could understand if it was explicitly designed to compete with other chat platforms. This would seem to fit with Fossil's mission well.

Re: Fossil Chat

#9

Post by exikyut » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:15 PM UTC

sigzero wrote: post #5

HeckFeck wrote: post #2

Does anyone use Fossil? I'm considering it for my personal projects. I like all it offers for the relatively low resource usage. The only use of it I've seen in the wild is Ripcord ( https://dev.cancel.fm/issues ), which is interestingly also relatively low resource usage compared to its competitor.

The TCT (Tcl Core Team) uses it heavily. They seem to like it a lot.

Ah, due to (who would've thunk) the SQLite connection.

Re: Fossil Chat

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Post by mgreenleaf » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:24 PM UTC

danpalmer wrote: post #8

> Fossil chat is not intended as a replacement or competitor for So what is it for? If it's another inbox to check that's a bit of a productivity drain. I could understand if it was explicitly designed to compete with other chat platforms. This would seem to fit with Fossil's mission well.

I think the idea is so that core developers have a quick way to chat with one another over design ideas w/o needing to register or setup other infrastructure, then move the best over to the permanent forum record or wiki.

Then the core members don't need to have a dedicated channel somewhere else. If they did, then that would be another inbox to check; instead they can check the fossil chat when they are on the project site looking over commits or documentation.

So it is just another source of information on the main "fossil channel" instead of another channel to check. Viewing it in that way, it is reducing the number of channels by simply inlining it.