Mercurial 1.9 released

ChuckMcM 14 years ago |

I appreciate better support of bugzilla. I'm still on the lookout for an automated code review package. I want what Google uses but that code hasn't escaped the 'plex yet as far as I can tell (also it was pretty heavily in bed with perforce which is another pain point I don't need).

Source code repo, bug/defect tracking, code-review / auditing, and real time testing. Makes life so much more productive than the 'old' days.

osivertsson 14 years ago | |

Review Board [1] is a pretty good code review tool, but my experience is only with Subversion integration.

I'm not quite sure what kind of integration with Mercurial you are looking for, but the Mercurial wiki contains one such extension [2].

[1] http://www.reviewboard.org/ [2] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ReviewboardExtension

andrevoget 14 years ago |

It's impressive that they always manage to release on the 1st of a month.

arkitaip 14 years ago | |

The great thing about this is that it makes shipping less dramatical. If your code misses this month's release, just wait another 30 days. Also, when you're doing these incremental releases, you don't risk shipping major releases that might be buggy or not appeal your customers.

tonfa 14 years ago | | |

For most code (at least the interesting one), it's not 30 days, but 4 months. The monthly release is only for the stable branch.

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TimeBasedReleasePlan

Personally i find it great (and we try to do the coding sprint one/two months before the next release, so the big features have some time to be stabilized).

Silhouette 14 years ago | | |

In case any Mercurial people are reading this: It might be helpful to advertise that release schedule information more prominently on the home and/or download pages of your site.

I've been using Hg for a while on various machines, but I hadn't noticed anything so regular. I just set up a whole load of machines for some colleagues yesterday with the then-latest version, wondering why downloading the installers seemed so slow. I assume with hindsight that I missed the update by a few hours at most, and maybe the connection was weighed down with release-related tasks.

(Oh, and thanks to the dev team for the hard work, BTW!)

tonfa 14 years ago | | |

Hi, I'm a Hg dev. I'll talk to the people doing the website see what they think about that.

ataranto 14 years ago |

I'd like to hack on the mercurial codebase. Is there a git repo somewhere that I can clone?