IRC

Internet Relay Chat is one of the best ways to interact with the Mercurial community. We can be found in the channel #mercurial on irc.freenode.net.

1. Etiquette

The Mercurial channel usually has a couple hundred people in it, so to help things go smoothly, we ask that you:

• Don't ask if you can ask a question - just ask!
• If you want help with a bug, please be responsive to developer questions
• Don't make demands of developers - they're under no obligation to help anyone
• Don't be rude to other Mercurial users
• We're not fluent in all SCMs, don't assume we know what a "git foo-bar" is
• Try to avoid prolonged digressions about things other than Mercurial

• Use http://paste.lisp.org/new/mercurial to share tracebacks, etc. (or http://paste.pocoo.org)

• Please read suggestions on giving advice

See also http://freenode.net/faq.shtml

2. Who's who

2.1. Core developers

• mpm (Matt Mackall) - the Mercurial project leader

• cyanite (Sune Foldager) - crew

• muggs (Steve Borho) - crew

• pmezard (Patrick Mézard) - crew

• tonfa (Benoit Boissinot) - crew

• hstuart (Henrik Stuart) - crew

• ThomasAH (Thomas Arendsen Hein) - crew (though not very active), admin of hg.intevation.org

• brendan (Brendan Cully) - crew

• mg (Martin Geisler) - crew

• djc (Dirkjan Ochtman) - crew

• nicdumz (Nicolas Dumazet) - crew

• kiilerix (Mads Kiilerich) - crew

2.2. Other regulars

• durin42 (Augie Fackler) - hgsubversion author, hg-git maintainer, Google Code engineer, and general hg extension hacker.

• Ry4an (Ry4an Brase) - Mercurial tier one help desk

• pachi (Rafael Villar) - Mercurial help desk for easy questions :P

• danchr (Dan V. P. Christiansen) - contributor to Mercurial & hgsubversion

• parren (Peter Arrenbrecht) - pbranch author and sporadic contributor

• dsop (David Soria Parra) - bookmarks and pager author, mercurial.selenic.com maintainer working. Sporadic contributor

• TheMystic (Kevin Bullock) - occasional packager of extensions, sporadic bug fixer

• ronny (Ronny Pfannschmidt) - sporadic contributor and pypy/jython porting

• peerst (Peer Stritzinger) - for now just a user of Mercurial

• wbruna (Wagner Bruna) - translator, Brazilian Portuguese

• brodie (Brodie Rao) - contributor; author of various extensions

• sjl (Steve Losh) - contributor; author of various extensions

• blacktrash - (Christian Ebert) - keyword extension author

• Omnifarious - (Eric Hopper) - Usually known as Omni|AFK. Lurker extraordinaire. Was a contributor long ago.

• Jerub (Stepehen Thorne) #python owner; PSF member; mercurial user

2.3. GSoC 2011

(GSoC students should add themselves here)

• idank (Idan Kamara)

• yunlee (Yun Lee)

• Md.O.Shayan( Md. O. Shayan)

2.4. When are people here?

You can indicate when you are normally online in the table below. This will make it easy to see who could be online at any given time.

The table below was originally built from logs of #mercurial, #bitbucket, #hgsubversion, #tortoisehg. The number of messages per hour were counted and an hour got a if the number of messages in that hour were more than 30% of the highest number of messages for an hour. Please adjust as needed.

3. Using hgbot

'hgbot' is an IRC bot that helps with various tasks, including answering FAQs. Some useful commands:

• !seen <user> - report when user was last seen

• !bts <issue number> - summarize an issue from the bug tracker

• !main <changeset id> - summarize a commit in the Mercurial repo

• !crew <changeset id> - summarize a commit in the crew repo

• !learn <key> as <value> - add a factoid to the database

• !forget <key> - forget a factoid

• !hghelp <command> - get a help summary

• !factoids search <keyword> - search the factoids for a keyword

Some common FAQs and links:

• !irc - link to this page

• !wiki - link to this wiki

• !hgignore - help on hgignore syntax

• !inotifybug - the common inotify bug

• !trust - information about trusted users

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