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Re:Firefox download on SourceForge by jordigh on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:04PM (#9720204)
> I'm genuinely curious what reasons remain for people preferring mercurial

Top-level answers here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9467096

> moving to Savannah seems like the obvious choice there then.

The only issue is that Savannah is static hosting. We have a bit of PHP that generates one page. We might be able to replace that with Jekyll, though.

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Re:Firefox download on SourceForge by JoshTriplett on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:08PM (#9720248)
> The only issue is that Savannah is static hosting. We have a bit of PHP that generates one page. We might be able to replace that with Jekyll, though.

Does it do so from dynamic server-side data, or could you run it on each new commit and serve the result as a static page?

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Re:Firefox download on SourceForge by jordigh on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:44PM (#9721187)
Yeah, we can probably do some sort of commit hook. It's not an impossible problem, just annoying.
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