@freemo I know we have an instance of Gitlab hosted on Qoto, but I was curious if you've considered something for hosting mercurial/etc projects as well. I really appreciate the access to Gitlab, but I'm thinking of switching to either Hg or Sapling (even though the latter is made by...Meta๐คข) as potential git alternatives due to many suggestions on hacker news, along with extensibility, and apparent simplicity of both tools.
I'm not sure if there would be widespread interest in such a thing since git more or less won the DVCS war, but I figured I'd chuck the idea your way and see if you have interest in making it happen like the STEM-genie I often imagine you to be ๐
P.S. I hope you're doing well and have fun plans for Thanksgiving...assuming you take time to celebrate it in Utrecht, that is ๐
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@johnabs hahaa, sadly, no plans for thanksgiving as im not in america. Sorry i missed your original post.
I always wanted to play with Hg but truth be told, it just doesnt offer anything worth the cost of being such a rarity.
@freemo Aww that sucks ๐ I'll pour out a gravy boat for our expat homies ๐
And no problem, I figured I'd bump it for anyone I may have convinced to try it. IMO it's not worth it unless you only want CLI usage (or to use a separate gui program like TortoiseHG). I like Emacs too much, and "monky" doesn't come remotely close to Magit, so I'll put up with my git grievances...for now.
@johnabs one day ill play with hg just for shits and giggles.. i doubt i will ever adopt it because i work with teams, and if im in a team i gotta use what people know and prefer.
@freemo Well if you find anything ground breaking, let me know! Worst case scenario, I'll fork Magit and be annoyed for a bit while I hack together Hg support.
The other downside is a lack of free options for hosting except for FOSS projects, and as a research under a PI, I don't get a huge amount of say when/where the packages get released unfortunately :(
@freemo Edit: I take it back, there is no good emacs compatibility. What curse have I brought upon this blessed instance, please ignore.