A given source-code management system is most useful to the developer community if there are good quality providers of repository hosting, and for open-source development it essential that this hosting is free and unencumbered. All the well-established version control systems have such providers, generally offering free provision of world-readable repositories and paid subscriptions for private repository hosting. For example:
Are there similar providers allowing Fossil repositories to be hosted for free?
Free and Open-Source - 2-clause BSD license.
Git provides file versioning services only, whereas Fossil adds an integrated wiki, ticketing & bug tracking, embedded documentation, technical notes, a web forum, and a chat service, all within a single nicely-designed skinnable web UI, protected by a fine-grained role-based access control system.
I just launched a fossil hosting solution over at http://chiselapp.com It's still in alpha but supports a number of things already. Feel free to let me know what you think.
It seems Fossil is available on Sourceforge:
http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fossil/wiki
Though it's not clear if this is an official installation. It's within SF.net allowance to host custom CGI scripts, but a admin maintained installation would be nicer.
Even though setting up a Sourceforge entry is probably overkill for small projects (what Fossil targets), this seems a sensible project hosting option. If Fossil is not officially supported, we should lobby for it to become that. Most likely BerliOS would adopt it, too.
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