contribution process (was: Re: Mercurial popularity is stagnant)

[Augie Fackler]

On Jul 2, 2014, at 11:34 AM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:

> Augie,
> 
> Perhaps it would help if we could streamline the contribution process…?

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ContributingChanges is the current process, for reference. If you've got advice on how we could make that more inviting, let's talk it out?

> Right now the main hg repository is http://selenic.com/repo/hg. As far as I can tell, there is no "pull request" process so contributing could certainly be made easier. I don't think this is *the* answer for fixing Mercurial's popularity but faster growth would certainly help us catch up on any missing features (which, in my opinion, is half the problem).

I'm not sure how pull requests would help here? It'd add a place I have to check for patches. Also, I'm completely unaware of free-as-in-freedom tools that support pull requests - if you're aware of something, please let me know. I'd at least spend a little while investigating.

If someone was interested in writing some sort of web service that could turn our mailing list traffic into a somewhat pull-request-like UI, that'd be something of great interest to me - that'd be the best of both worlds.

> Gili
> 
> On 01/07/2014 1:36 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 2014, at 1:35 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to bring your attention to:
>>> http://www.google.ca/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=mercurial,+git,+github,+bitbucket&cmpt=q&content=1
>>> 
>>> It seems to me that GitHub is directly responsible for Git's popularity
>>> skyrocketing in 2009. By comparison, Mercurial's popularity seems to be
>>> stagnant for a while. Bitbucket initially did a decent job, but ever since
>>> they got bought out by Atlassian all public announcements emphasize Git
>>> support and don't mention Mercurial at all.
>>> 
>>> Case in point:
>>> http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/12/10/feature-branches-just-got-better/
>>> 
>>> How do we go about reversing this trend?
>> I think one thing that would help would be users blogging more about their workflows and how hg makes them productive. I keep meaning to do this, but I have too many things pulling at my attention to ever manage to get started.
>> 
>>> Gili
>>> 
>>> 
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