web site + this list

[Pierre-Yves David]

Hi !

On 8/20/26 14:40, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 1. As far as I can tell, neither the website, mercurial-scm.org, nor
> the actual mercurial source have any pointers to this list or to any
> community forum except where to send patches.  Is that deliberate?  It
> seems pretty undesirable to me.


It is not deliberate, these should be mentionned somewhere on the wiki, 
but the wiki is now deprecated and updating the website to point at the 
mailing list and the matrix channel as remained a "todo item" for the 
new website.

The bandwidth that the core team can be dedicated to the website is 
currently very low. However contribution are welcome through 
https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/hg-website

> 2. Also, the website has pages that look like manual pages, but that
> are very short on details.  Is that deliberate?  Again I think it
> would be good to make that information available online.


If I remember correctly, this doc is the same as the one served by hgweb 
and is based on Mercurial internal help.


> https://mercurial-scm.org/help/commands/log does not list or describe
> the available command options.  Neither did any of the other commands
> I checked.

Not listing the available command options in this page is weird and 
seems like a bug of that help generation.

> E.g.,https://mercurial-scm.org/help/topics/templating has sections
> for keywords, filters and functions, but doesn't list what the
> available choices are or what they do.


The templating help has been frustrating for ages because the templating 
is officially "still experimental" even if it is really no longer so in 
practice. People can discover existing keyword using thing like 
`--template json`. That is sub optimal but should at least be pointed 
out in the doc.

> 3. The confirmation mail for this list was put in spam by Google.


That mostly seems like a 2026 problem affecting email server that are 
not O(Google)

> 4. Originally I subscribed through selenic.com, which appears still to
> be there with the same content.  And my password for the subscription
> at selenic.com worked for my recent changes at mercurial-scm.org.  I
> guess they are 2 gateways to the same thing, but it's a bit confusing.


Did you subscribed through selenic.com recently? If so, I guess there is 
some redirection in place. The selenic.com address has been deprecated 
for over 10 years now however.

> Thanks.
> Ross Boylan

Thanks for the feedback and your work on thg !


-- 
Pierre-Yves David
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