Free public Mercurial hosting

[Mads Kiilerich]

John Goerzen wrote, On 02/04/2008 03:36 PM:
> I missed the start of this thread, but thought that I should add that
> Debian's alioth project (alioth.debian.org) offers free Mercurial
> hosting to any Free Software project.  There is a global hgwebdir
> installation there.
>
> SourceForge also would accomodate that, though not as nicely -- you'd
> have to install hg and the CGI yourself.
>   

These might be good options for hosting centralized development. 
Projects using distributed version control system probably also needs 
that. But ...

It would be nice if anyone easily could create their own "branch" next 
to the official repo. Other users could pull and comment (perhaps using 
something like http://www.review-board.org/) and vote for it, and it 
should be easy to see if it applied cleanly or already had been applied 
to the base repo(s).

IMHO the benefit of distributed VCS comes when contributer-centric 
hosting is available. You know, something buzzword compliant with 
web2ish post modern ego-centric service. Contribution in such a model is 
so much easier than when only old-fashioned project-centric is used.

Launchpad comes pretty close ...

/Mads