Mercurial book (v2)

Mathias De Maré mathias.demare at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 00:38:09 CDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 17:18 +0200, 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 (since it was still available).
>
> Awesome. You should probably point to this stuff on the wiki:
>
> https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MercurialBook
>

Thanks! Done.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:03 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?
>

It's simple and stable, so it should be fine to keep it on that server for
now. I do want to write an ansible configuration, so it can be set up
easily somewhere else (for example under project control).

>
> 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
>
Thanks, looks interesting. Added it to the issues list:
https://bitbucket.org/Mathiasdm/hgbook/issues/2/add-chapter-on-evolution

>
> 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.
>

Thanks :-)

>
> 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.
>
Point taken. We'll see :-)

>
> 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 ☺
>
Glad to contribute a bit :-)
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