I am a MoinMoin wiki developer (also in Python) and Linux user.

See ThomasWaldmann and ThomasWaldmann.

We currently use GNU Arch for our MoinMoin repository, but after some playing with mercurial and having a working converter, who knows... - I like good Python programs.

How to improve Mercurial

I am new to hg, so take this with a grain of salt:

• run pychecker more often - although it might give some false alarms, it often points out strange places in the src and sometimes even severe errors.
• read and follow pep-0008 and maybe put multiple statements on multiple lines (even for single line blocks under some "if"), makes it more readable
• make sure every py src code file begins like:

  # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-    (or ascii or utf-8, just to make things clear)
  """
  What this file does in a single line.
  
  What this file does in some more detailed description...
  
  @license: GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.
  @copyright: 2005 Firstname Lastname <email>
  @copyright: 2005 more authors...
  """

  This stuff could be put into some _header.py so one can easily use it when starting a new file.
• make sure your src code files end with an empty line (makes it easier for diff, avoids "missing end of line at eof warnings")
• use epydoc docstrings and generate docs using epydoc tool