IRC
Internet Relay Chat is one of the best ways to interact with the Mercurial community. We can be found in the channel #mercurial on irc.freenode.net.
Etiquette
The Mercurial channel usually has a couple hundred people in it, so to help things go smoothly, we ask that you:
- Don't ask if you can ask a question
- If you want help with a bug, please be responsive to developer questions
- Don't make demands of developers - they're under no obligation to help anyone
- Don't be rude to other Mercurial users
- We're not fluent in all SCMs, don't assume we know what a "git foo-bar" is
- Try to avoid prolonged digressions about things other than Mercurial
Use http://paste.lisp.org/new/mercurial to share tracebacks, etc.
Who's Who
Core developers:
mpm (Matt Mackall) - the Mercurial project leader
cyanite (Sune Foldager) - crew
muggs (Steve Borho) - crew
pmezard (Patrick Mézard) - crew
tonfa (Benoit Boissinot) - crew
hstuart (Henrik Stuart) - crew
ThomasAH (Thomas Arendsen Hein) - crew (though not very active), admin of hg.intevation.org
brendan (Brendan Cully) - crew
mg (Martin Geisler) - crew
djc (Dirkjan Ochtman) - crew
nicdumz (Nicolas Dumazet) - crew
Other regulars:
durin42 (Augie Fackler) - hgsubversion author, hg-git maintainer, Google Code engineer, and general hg extension hacker.
Ry4an (Ry4an Brase) - Mercurial tier one help desk
pachi (Rafael Villar) - Mercurial help desk for easy questions :P
danchr (Dan V. P. Christiansen) - contributor to Mercurial & hgsubversion
parren (Peter Arrenbrecht) - pbranch author and sporadic contributor
dsop (David Soria Parra) - bookmarks and pager author, mercurial.selenic.com maintainer working. Sporadic contributor
TheMystic (Kevin Bullock) - occasional packager of extensions, sporadic bug fixer
ronny (Ronny Pfannschmidt) - sporadic contributor and pypy/jython porting