Rave post about the powerfully simple Fossil software configuration management system, from Richard Hipp, the developer that gave SQLite to the world. 
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Well met,
Dr. Richard Hipp, one of the principle players behind SQLite, is also working on the Fossil project. The fossil-scm site documents (and self-hosts) the Fossil Software Configuration Management tool.
I've grown to like it, over the last few weeks. A distributed revision control repository that also holds wiki, tickets, docs and just enough little extras to make it a sweet spot for normal sized project management.
fossil is a command line tool with a built in web server, making for efficiency along side a graphical interface.
[btiffin@home cobol]$ fossil timeline
=== 2011-03-01 ===
00:00:00 [ef41e8c202] OpenCOBOL with guile (user: btiffin tags: reminder)
=== 2011-01-02 ===
03:07:48 [fe5166cb55] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
03:05:10 [ea17720b42] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
03:04:20 [dc1c419d19] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
03:01:20 [1367d3b67f] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
02:42:44 [7ff5c492fc] *CURRENT* fossil www (user: btiffin tags: trunk)
02:39:29 [e8dbe88fea] sqlite (user: btiffin tags: trunk)
01:30:36 [b0fcab96c3] libsoup (user: btiffin tags: trunk)
01:12:13 [08e0a256d4] rootcint (user: btiffin tags: trunk)
01:05:51 [51df3f8ca2] docs (user: btiffin tags: trunk)
01:00:30 [ddae685466] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
00:59:45 [c19b13c1b7] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
00:59:16 [5cca98c501] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
00:58:35 [e6437abcc8] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
00:51:55 [26a23a3869] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
00:46:17 [b310705408] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
00:46:10 [a6a440d692] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
=== 2011-01-01 ===
23:23:51 [97b6a420ca] Changes to wiki page [OpenCOBOL] (user: btiffin)
with fossil server . running in a background process:
Check it out. http://www.fossil-scm.org
Oh, and use it to manage OpenCOBOL projects. 😉
Cheers,
Brian
