Best practices for publishing extensions

Augie Fackler durin42 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 21:10:05 CDT 2011


On Apr 4, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Greg Ward wrote:
> 
> On 03 April 2011, Augie Fackler said:
>>> In order to make life easier for my "allextensions" scrape-to-subrepos
>>> project, I've just finished the glamorous and thrilling job of
>>> updating many many *Extension pages in the Mercurial wiki to use more
>>> consistent terminology.  allextensions now tracks 65 extensions, up
>>> from 37 when I first announced it the other night.
>> 
>> Looking at allextensions, it's missing hg-git and hgsubversion, both
>> of which have wiki pages. I just added the Repository: line for
>> hgsubversion, but hg-git is missing and appears to have the line
>> already. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> For historical reasons, allextensions accepts "Download site" as an
> alias for "Repository".  If you have both in your wiki page, it uses
> the first match.  If the URL there isn't an hg clone, then the
> extension is dropped.
> 
> I've fixed both wiki pages to conform to the new terminology that I
> proposed last week and (mostly) imposed over the weekend, namely:
> 
>  Web page: http://hg-git.github.com/
> 
>  Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/hg-git
> 
>  Repository: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
> 
> Similar for hgsubversion.
> 
> Both extensions are now in allextensions.  That makes 67 -- thanks!
> 
>        Greg


Cool. Now, what did I do wrong on the wiki page I made yesterday for remotebranches?

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RemoteBranchesExtension

It doesn't appear on the category page, which mystifies me.

Thanks,
Augie



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