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)

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

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

2.3. GSoC:

• vsh (Vishakh Harikumar) - shallow clone

• trovao (Renato Cunha) - py3k porting

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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