Mercurial popularity is stagnant

[Matthew Turk]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
> This is a real and legitimate need. Without a web interface, we lose all
> visual context to our discussions.
>
> I can't imagine not being able to annotate bug reports, automated build
> systems, code reviews to a code repository, branch or a specific section of
> code. I can't imagine not being able to annotate these links with
> discussions. Having these conversations by emails, with text diffs is a huge
> step backward, so much so that I consider having such discussions are
> impossible.
>
> I'll say it again: this isn't a nice to have. It's a very strong *need*.

I agree.  Kallithea is poised to be an amazing, feature-complete web
interface for hg:

kallithea-scm.org

-Matt

>
> Gili
>
>
> On 19/08/2014 1:05 PM, Paul Nathan-2 [via Mercurial] wrote:
>
> The Windows personality as personified by devs demands polished gui tools
> and clickies on webpage forms. :/
>
> Believe me, as a a Unix personality supporting SCM, I have years of
> experience with this.
>
> Hgweb is adequate for me...
> ---
> Regards,
> Paul Nathan
>
> On August 19, 2014 9:38:26 AM PDT, till plewe <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>>> Let me try again. What functionality is needed beyond what is
>>provided
>>>> by hgweb, or a simple unix account to which the developers have
>>access
>>>> via ssh?
>>
>>...
>>
>>> I'm the main mercurial advocate where I work, and we've been using it
>>> happily for a couple of years now, using a home-grown server
>>> application for repository management, code reviews and so on. But
>>> unfortunately we're now switching to git mostly because of Atlassian
>>> Stash - the code review tools and integration with bug tracking
>>(Jira)
>>> are simply better than the other options we looked at. If Stash
>>> supported mercurial I don't think we'd be switching.
>>
>>Is it a decision made by developers or managers? As far as I can tell
>>there is nothing there which would tempt me to switch but it may look
>>different on the managerial level. Are there any killer features which
>>appeal to developers?
>>
>>- Till
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