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Mercurial 1.9 released

92 points by sparkiegeek 15y ago

andrevoget 15y ago
It's impressive that they always manage to release on the 1st of a month.
- arkitaip 15y ago
  The great thing about this is that it makes shipping less dramatical. If your code misses this month's release, just wait another 30 days. Also, when you're doing these incremental releases, you don't risk shipping major releases that might be buggy or not appeal your customers.
  - tonfa 15y ago
    For most code (at least the interesting one), it's not 30 days, but 4 months. The monthly release is only for the stable branch. See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TimeBasedReleasePlan http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TimeBasedReleasePlan Personally i find it great (and we try to do the coding sprint one/two months before the next release, so the big features have some time to be stabilized).
    - Silhouette 15y ago
      In case any Mercurial people are reading this: It might be helpful to advertise that release schedule information more prominently on the home and/or download pages of your site. I've been using Hg for a while on various machines, but I hadn't noticed anything so regular. I just set up a whole load of machines for some colleagues yesterday with the then-latest version, wondering why downloading the installers seemed so slow. I assume with hindsight that I missed the update by a few hours at most, and maybe the connection was weighed down with release-related tasks. (Oh, and thanks to the dev team for the hard work, BTW!)
      - tonfa 15y ago
        Hi, I'm a Hg dev. I'll talk to the people doing the website see what they think about that.
ataranto 15y ago
I'd like to hack on the mercurial codebase. Is there a git repo somewhere that I can clone?
ChuckMcM 15y ago
I appreciate better support of bugzilla. I'm still on the lookout for an automated code review package. I want what Google uses but that code hasn't escaped the 'plex yet as far as I can tell (also it was pretty heavily in bed with perforce which is another pain point I don't need). Source code repo, bug/defect tracking, code-review / auditing, and real time testing. Makes life so much more productive than the 'old' days.
- osivertsson 15y ago
  Review Board [1] is a pretty good code review tool, but my experience is only with Subversion integration. I'm not quite sure what kind of integration with Mercurial you are looking for, but the Mercurial wiki contains one such extension [2]. [1] http://www.reviewboard.org/ http://www.reviewboard.org/ [2] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ReviewboardExtension http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ReviewboardExtension

92 points by sparkiegeek 15y ago

andrevoget 15y ago

It's impressive that they always manage to release on the 1st of a month.

arkitaip 15y ago
The great thing about this is that it makes shipping less dramatical. If your code misses this month's release, just wait another 30 days. Also, when you're doing these incremental releases, you don't risk shipping major releases that might be buggy or not appeal your customers.
- tonfa 15y ago
  For most code (at least the interesting one), it's not 30 days, but 4 months. The monthly release is only for the stable branch. See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TimeBasedReleasePlan http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TimeBasedReleasePlan Personally i find it great (and we try to do the coding sprint one/two months before the next release, so the big features have some time to be stabilized).
  - Silhouette 15y ago
    In case any Mercurial people are reading this: It might be helpful to advertise that release schedule information more prominently on the home and/or download pages of your site. I've been using Hg for a while on various machines, but I hadn't noticed anything so regular. I just set up a whole load of machines for some colleagues yesterday with the then-latest version, wondering why downloading the installers seemed so slow. I assume with hindsight that I missed the update by a few hours at most, and maybe the connection was weighed down with release-related tasks. (Oh, and thanks to the dev team for the hard work, BTW!)
    - tonfa 15y ago
      Hi, I'm a Hg dev. I'll talk to the people doing the website see what they think about that.

ataranto 15y ago

I'd like to hack on the mercurial codebase. Is there a git repo somewhere that I can clone?

ChuckMcM 15y ago

I appreciate better support of bugzilla. I'm still on the lookout for an automated code review package. I want what Google uses but that code hasn't escaped the 'plex yet as far as I can tell (also it was pretty heavily in bed with perforce which is another pain point I don't need). Source code repo, bug/defect tracking, code-review / auditing, and real time testing. Makes life so much more productive than the 'old' days.

osivertsson 15y ago
Review Board [1] is a pretty good code review tool, but my experience is only with Subversion integration. I'm not quite sure what kind of integration with Mercurial you are looking for, but the Mercurial wiki contains one such extension [2]. [1] http://www.reviewboard.org/ http://www.reviewboard.org/ [2] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ReviewboardExtension http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ReviewboardExtension