A good web forge (~Gitlab) supporting Mercurial before Bitbucket's deadline (1st of June 2020)?

[Georges Racinet]

Hi Pierre,

(quoting you out of order, I hope you don't mind)

On 8/26/19 11:01 PM, PIERRE AUGIER wrote:
>
> I can start a list of requirements for academics and open-source
> community projects (like PyPy or Mercurial :-)
>
> 0. Real Mercurial support (phases, evolve, topics, ...)
>
(...)
>
> The friendly fork of Gitlab https://heptapod.net/ seems very
> interesting. A very nice advantage is that Gitlab is the solution
> chosen by many academic institutions (for example my university :-).
> It is well known so Heptapod won't afraid people used to Github or
> Gitlab. And many "side services" (like https://codecov.io/) could just
> work out of the box.
>
Indeed Heptapod fulfills a good lot of the requirements on your list
already, and we have good hopes for some of the others (e.g., continuous
integration). What we don't have right now is this:

> 1. A free-of-charge-for-basic-service website
>
> The free-of-charge website is really important for students, "small"
> projects and academics. For example, as a teacher/researcher, I can't
> spend time to set up a server and an instance of ??? (it's really not
> my job, I don't know how to do it and I don't have time to learn
> this). It's important to be able to tell to students/colleagues that
> they can very easily create a personal account and their own
> repositories just with few clicks
>
All that makes sense. What we can do at this point is

* provide access to people that want to try Heptapod on one of Octobus'
instances

* provide some support to sysadmins (like your university's) that want
to setup an instance – you can tell them it's almost identical to plain
GitLab Docker install, by the way.

As for actually starting a free-of-charge instance, we don't need much
more than to tighten a few bolts and screws on the technical side.
However, we'd need trusted volunteers to help with basic administration
and moderation, together with a way to compensate the raw hosting costs
once it's taken off.

To summarize, that looks to me like it's achievable before BitBucket
shuts down the creation of new repositories if enough people join us in
the meanwhile.

Regards,

-- 
Georges Racinet
https://octobus.net
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