Mercurial book (v2)

[Mathias De Maré]

Hello everyone,

a couple of months ago, I started working on getting the Mercurial book to
build again.
Currently, I have the English version working and translations work in
theory (currently, it's only the Chinese version, and that appears to have
some Glyphs problems).
Additionally, I set up a webserver and got the comment system up and
running on http://178.62.205.21/ . I also took the liberty of reserving
hgbook.org (since it was still available).
My code is available at https://bitbucket.org/Mathiasdm/hgbook .

The current state of the book:
- Updated parts of chapter 1, improving some of the information on other
version control systems and addressing comments in general.
- Updated the start of chapter 2, referencing correct URL's and mentioning
more tools than only TortoiseHg.
- Started work on a new chapter that focuses specifically on scaling
Mercurial. So far, it contains information on largefiles and remotefilelog.

I also contacted Bryan a while ago. He mentioned the possibility of moving
to a Creative Commons license for increased flexibility. I haven't heard
back regarding that option, but I hear Bryan's quite a busy guy.

Obviously, there's plenty to be done. Some things are listed already at
https://bitbucket.org/Mathiasdm/hgbook/issues?status=new&status=open .
Contributors are very much welcome!
I would propose if you are starting on a specific task to assign yourself
to it (and create a new task if it doesn't exist yet). This way, we can
avoid duplicating work.
There's still an hgbook mailing list (from the previous effort to update
the book, I think). I'd like to propose we use that for hgbook-related
discussions: https://www.selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-book

I think it can also be useful to discuss work on the new book as part of
the sprint for 3.6, so I added that as a topic.

If anyone feels like contributing, please let me know :-) For myself, the
first upcoming tasks are to address comments throughout the book and to add
a new chapter on subrepos.

Greetings,
Mathias
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