Developers of the project , which is a fork of the open collaborative development platform , adapted for use with the Mercurial version control system, about the launch of public hosting for Open Source projects (), utilizing Mercurial. The Heptapod code, like GitLab, is under the MIT license and can be used to deploy similar code hosting on your own servers.
The launched service allows free hosting of any free and open projects using OSI-approved licenses. However, there is one condition — the logos of Heptapod sponsors (Clever Cloud and Octobus) must be placed on the official project webpage (for example, on the developer instructions page). After registration, you should create a request to create a repository in the section. Due to the Mercurial by Bitbucket hosting, priority will be given to requests from projects hosted on Bitbucket.
Please note that starting February 1, 2020, creating new Mercurial repositories in Bitbucket will be prohibited, and on June 1, 2020, all Mercurial-related functionalities will be disabled, including the removal of Mercurial-specific APIs, as well as the deletion of all Mercurial repositories. Besides Heptapod, Mercurial support is also provided by services , and .
Source: opennet.ru
