Comment by robwayne

I've sorta overlooked Fossil a lot (mostly because it's not git...), but just browsing some instances on chisel and the fossil homepage has me intrigued.

If you'll entertain me for a moment...

My dream "forge" would just be nice-looking frontend for displaying repos on the web, a public issue tracker (with per-issue permissions), a public way to submit issues, and essentially a single canonical root for repositories that users on the team work on. I don't want individual user repos or pages, organizations, or any social stuff. I definitely don't want open registration.

It really looks like fossil is actually what I've always wanted.

How limiting is the custom theme support? It looks like you can just straight up write your own HTML/CSS for everything. If I really want a custom design, will I be disappointed in the long run?

Also, it looks like it follows that user model I want, where it's "repositories with users" instead of "users with repositories". Is that correct?

And here I was trying to hype myself up to write my own git web frontend.