I didn't find his arguments that compelling. User management is something you are going to have to do no matter what VCS you are using Fossil doesn't remove that requirement. Last I checked Fossil didn't magically generate custom CSS and project logos so I am still going to have to do all that stuff with fossil. Pretty much every thing on the if I don't use fossil I will have to do this extra stuff is stuff you have to do for fossil as well.
All this while fossil is relatively untested by comparison. If my project needs something more than a wiki then I stuck doing all the setup and config any way so I might as well use a real wiki and ticketing system.
"User management" in other systems involves either copying ssh keys or using a service like github. If it's Trac you're talking about then depending on the version either you're doing command line operations that make no sense, or maybe you got one of those fancy web admins.
The point was, fossil has a nice flexibly but easy to use integrated user management. I can go in and say that anonymous users can post tickets or not, commit or not, clone or not, all fine grain. I haven't ran into a single system that does this nor does it this easily.
> Last I checked Fossil didn't magically generate custom CSS and project logos so I am still going to have to do all that stuff with fossil
I believe you really don't want to do that though, last time I checked Fossil generated HTML from C, either directly or getting it out of the sqlite db.
All this while fossil is relatively untested by comparison. If my project needs something more than a wiki then I stuck doing all the setup and config any way so I might as well use a real wiki and ticketing system.