On Mon, 16 May 2016 23:06:59 -0500 Andy Goth <andrew.m.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > He said he thinks he'll go with Git instead because that would give > > the engineers working under him more forward mobility when they > > eventually move on to other companies, whereas Fossil is unknown > > and would not improve their employability. > > > > [...] > > > > Of course, none of that matters since he started by prioritizing > > marketing. > > I had a thought about Git marketing versus Fossil marketing. > > Git's success, at least its initial adoption from which critical mass > formed, is due to it being written by the principal author of Linux > for managing the development of Linux. I think its an overestimation. Don't forget that the landscape of F/OSS VC systems was different back then. In reality, DVC systems existing around year 2005 were either slow (Monotone, Darcs) or had horrible UI (GNU Arch) so Torvalds had nothing to pick from. > Sound familiar? > > Fossil was written by the principal author of SQLite for managing the > development of SQLite, and SQLite is arguably MORE successful than > Linux, so... haha. > > But then I'm reminded of drh speaking at the 2012 Tcl/Tk Conference, > showing a chart correlating a massive jump in Apple stock with Apple's > adoption of SQLite. He said this to demonstrate his claimed inability > to market his products, because he's not been able to use this chart > to sway any management types. (Am I remembering that correctly?) In my opinion the best marketing strategy for Fossil would be to compete with Subversion as trying to be a safe go-to solution for shops with "simple" demands. I think the statements made by one of Subversion developers in his «Version Control and “the 80%”» rant [1] pretty much explain why those who like Git won't switch to Fossil but how a simpler solution could help "the 80%" to cope with version control. Unfortunately, the major selling points of Subversion -- excellent Windows support including (proprietary) server-side solution with GUI configurator and TotroiseSVN -- do not exist for Fossil. Or at least they are not visible well enough. And ways to integrate Fossil to popular solutions like MSVS and Visual Studio Code appear to be of increasing relevance to me (I mean, more and more people with simple demands appear to use VC right from their IDEs). 1. http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=79 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
