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.
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
Who's who
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
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
GSoC:
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