new lead/admin for TortoiseHg

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Marcus Lindblom <macke at yar.nu> wrote:
> > TK Soh wrote:
> >> Greeting.
> >>
> >> Due to personal reasons, I'm no longer able to drive the development
> >> of TortoiseHg. The great news is that Steve Borho has agreed to take
> >> over as the new lead/admin for the project immediately. We expect to
> >> take 2-3 weeks to complete the transition.
> >>
> >> I'd like to thank the community for all the help and advices I've
> >> received in the past 20 months during the development of TortoiseHg.
> >> I've really learned a lot during these time. I shall continue to
> >> follow the projects, both TortoiseHg and Mercurial, and offer my help
> >> as much as I can.
> >
> > Thanks for making THg possible. Without it, we wouldn't be using
> > Mercurial at our place at all. :)
> >
> > And thanks to Steve for taking on the task for the future.
> 
> I agree that TortoiseHg is a key reason many people choose Hg.  For the
> future I would like to see integration between TortoiseHg and TortoiseSVN --
> I think this has occurred somewhat already but I wonder how far its possible
> to push that.  The other thing that would be nice would be coordinated
> releases with new versions of Hg.

Now that Hg is on a timed release schedule, this will be easier to
do.  It also helps that the installer build process is being
automated.  We would like to begin building periodic release
candidates so that as Hg approaches 1.2 we can be ready with THG 0.7
at nearly the same time.

--
Steve