Your favorite quote about Mercurial for the new website

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

> Am Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009 13:35:24 schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM, David Soria Parra <sn_ at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > On 2009-02-17, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Is the "new main page" available for viewing anywhere? (I don't mean
> > >> downloading the project and setting it up, as was described in the
> > >> announcement - I mean is there a link to a sample copy of the new site
> > >> which I can just look at, to see what you're proposing?)
> > >
> > > Yes, it's available at http://mercurial-scm.org
> >
> > The ability to use hg in Windows explorer via TortoiseHg is the
> > deciding feature for many and should be mentioned up front.
> 
> We want to show TortoiseHG instead of the Quick Start when the browser reports 
> Windows as user agent. 
> 
> That should _show_ people what Mercurial on Windows can do. 
> 
> it would be nice, though to add a sentence about Mercurial on Windows, for 
> example to the point "easy to learn". 

While we're html'ing.  TortoiseHg could use a decent 'first time' web
page for introducing new users.  A page that explains how THG is built
on shell extensions, with links to the THG home page, etc.  I can fill
in most of the content, but it would be nice if it didn't look like
the web circa '93.

Any volunteers?

--
Steve