Mercurial does not participate in the 2006 [http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html Google Summer of Code], but nevertheless here is a list of ideas one could implement.
Project ideas
- Write a set of "drop-in" web hosting code, so that people can create projects, upload repositories, create server-side branches, see how much branches are diverging, and manage all of these.
Add support for storing symbolic links.
- Support push over HTTP, using SSL, in a way that is friendly to both users and web admins.
- Extension: fast, incremental, native Subversion importer using Subversion's Python bindings.
- Extension: export changes to git repositories.
- Extension: let git clients pull changes from Mercurial servers using "git://" wire protocol.
Add support for date/time ranges to all Mercurial commands that can currently accept revision range.
Develop a distributed bug tracking system. Allow people to maintain their bugs and code in the same repo or in decoupled repos. Provide web interface for easy administration. (See [http://www.panoramicfeedback.com/opensource/ Bugs Everywhere] for an example.)
Convert commit comments between UTF-8 and current locale.
- Store file names internally as UTF-8, and convert to current locale/code page on disk.
- Find a high-performance way to do localised text strings in Python, and use this to add complete i18n support for at least one non-English language.
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