web site + this list

[Ross Boylan]

Thanks for the info.  A few responses below.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM Pierre-Yves David
<pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
> 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 mentioned 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.

What's the matrix channel?

>
> 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.
>

It's definitely not the same as what hg help produces on the terminal;
that gives  all the details for command line arguments and detailed
parameters.

> 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.

That was my thought about how this and the next problem arose.

>
> 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.
>
Even with --template json, what the keys mean, not to mention the info
on specific functions and filters, would remain open questions.
...
> 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?
No. According to my notes it was 2013.  I changed my edress more
recently. March 2025.  I'm not sure where I changed it, but there was
nothing in my notes about mercurial-scm.org, suggesting I may have
used selenic.  And I changed the edress today using mercurial-scm.org.

> If so, I guess there is some redirection in place. The selenic.com address has been deprecated for over 10 years now however.
>

> --
> Pierre-Yves David

Ross