Mercurial book (v2)

[Gregory Szorc]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Pierre-Yves David <
pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/15/2015 08:18 AM, Mathias De Maré wrote:
>
>> 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 <http://hgbook.org> (since it was still available).
>> My code is available at https://bitbucket.org/Mathiasdm/hgbook .
>>
>
> Awesome, is your hosting simple and stable or do you need a better
> solution?
>
> Nice job fro grabbing hgbook.org we'll probably want to get that under
> project control at some point.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> A chapter about phases would be nice. I've meant to translate this series
> of post into a chapter for quite some time, but I'll realistically not get
> to it any time soon:
>
> https://www.logilab.org/blogentry/88203
>
> 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.
>>
>
> I'll try to ambush him in person.
>
> 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
>>
>
> Depends on the actual traffic, but if it stay descent mercurial-devel
> might be a better place for that.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> +1
>
> 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.
>>
>
> Thanks for doing this ☺


There was also in effort (spearheaded by Sean Farley IIRC) to rewrite the
book. Somewhere there's a "hgbook2" repository. My browser history tells me
it's on smf.io, where it is currently 403ing. I have a local clone I could
push somewhere if needed...

smf?
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