sunsetting mercurial support in bitbucket

[Scott Palmer]

> On Aug 20, 2019, at 1:35 PM, Jason Sachs <jmsachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket
>> ...
>> 
>> --
>> | Raffaele Salmaso
>> | https://salmaso.org
>> | https://bitbucket.org/rsalmaso
>> | https://github.com/rsalmaso
> 
> Yeah, this is not good at all. Atlassian has now given their Hg
> hosting service a death sentence, after starving and cannibalizing it.
> 
> Is anyone maintaining the list of known Mercurial hosting services?
> Several of the ones in
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MercurialHosting seem like they no
> longer offer Mercurial hosting.
> 
> I'm in a bit of a panic for what to do next between now and June with
> my personal repositories; I do NOT want to switch to git.
> 
> Jason Sachs

The unpopularity of Mercurial is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy… E.g. BitBucket assisted in killing Mercurial by making it a second class system through lack of support.

If they truly wanted to “focus our priorities and roadmap on building the best possible experience for the market and our users”, they would have put their attention to the better tool - Mercurial.  Instead they took the easy path of going with the deluded masses.  I can’t blame them from a business decision perspective, but it sucks none the less. Git wins partly because of Linus’ celebrity and ego, evaluated strictly on its own merits it is not a better product.

VHS vs Betamax all over again ;-(