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I and the dozens of other remaining Mercurial users will be severely inconvenienced by this.

Still, at least SourceForge still has Mercurial support!

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Savannah allows using mercurial[0] and is likely less evil than sourceforge.

[0] https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/WhyChooseSavannah/

> Savannah has high project approval requirements and thus visitors can expect freedom-related qualities from projects hosted here

Is that code for "must be under GPL"? I'm a BSD man myself.

I honestly do not know. I believe I had a MIT licensed project there many years ago, but I would not surprised if it's GPL only.

https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php

It does not explicitly give out a list on that page (to get that you need an account), but from a read it seems to say GPL-compatible which BSD is.

The repository has a very explicit goal: The expressed purpose of advancing free software that can run in free operating systems. Licenses aside, the answer to the question if a project is suited for Savannah is likely answered by looking at that goal.

I wouldn't trust SourceForge at all after all the horrible stuff they've done. I know they have allegedly improved after new owners and a come-to-jesus moment, but damn, that was some shady shit.

I suspect the whole post was a bit tongue-in-cheek, not just the line about "There's dozens of us. Dozens!"

I think you are thinking about the old and nasty sourceforge. They have since been bought and the new owners have changed what nasty old sourceforge used to be

> I know they have allegedly improved after new owners and a come-to-jesus moment, but damn, that was some shady shit.

If Facebook tomorrow started saying they're totally going to stop being creepy and got a new CEO, I wouldn't suddenly start trusting them either.

We're a small independently owned private company, and not a single person responsible for those decisions made years ago is still involved with the company. It's been over 3 years since we bought SourceForge and we reversed all the bad decisions on day 1 and never looked back. We still support Mercurial https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mercurial/#pub...

But why buy such a tarnished trademark which has garnered so much ill will over the years for horrible practices? Is it a form of "all PR is good PR", that it's better to have a recognized but hated name than to have a name nobody knows of?

Most people have gotten the message that things have changed at SourceForge. We bought it to redeem the name and protect free open source software.

I still avoid SourceForge links because of that annoying 'Your download will start shortly...' interstitial.

sr.ht also recently added support for hg

at RhodeCode we used to have a hosted Mercurial repositories service. Actually, it was a per-customer isolated instance that we hosted on digital ocean. We have all the logic and code still here, i wonder if we should bring that back to have people host their Mercurial repositories.

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