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.
Contents
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 say hello, just ask your question!
- 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://pastebin.com)
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
marmoute (Pierre-Yves David) crew; working on mutable history related business (phases, obsolete marker, evolve)
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
durin42 (Augie Fackler) - crew, hgsubversion author, hg-git maintainer, Google Code engineer, and general hg extension hacker.
TheMystic (Kevin Bullock) - crew
2.2. Other regulars
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.
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
idank (Idan Kamara) - contributor
marcinkuzminski (Marcin Kuzminski) - RhodeCode creator
timeless - contributor
2.3. 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.
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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