Hi, I was looking at the Mercurial website https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ and the wiki pages directly linked by this website. I realized that it gives a bad impression of Mercurial and does not show well that the project is still active.
For example, in https://www.mercurial-scm.org/downloads, one can read "Development Repositories Main The main development repository of the Mercurial maintainer Matt Mackall can be found at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg. Committers The development repository of the Mercurial core contributors can be found at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg-committed/. See Developer Repositories on the wiki for a full list. Requirements Python Mercurial uses Python (version 2.7). Most ready-to-run Mercurial distributions include Python or use the Python that comes with your operating system. " - "Python 2.7" ? Then, there are even mentions of python 2.4 an 2.3 ! Is it really useful? Nowadays, Debian old stable includes Python 3.9. For most developers, the Python 2 issue is gone a long time ago. I realized that it has been a nightmare for Mercurial, but is it necessary to mention Python 2 in one of the main page of the website? - Now that people are used to Github and Gitlab, the look of https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg seems like 20th century. https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel looks much more modern but it is not mentioned in https://www.mercurial-scm.org/downloads - About activity, the result of https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg is not very positive (nothing in May for example). The result of https://foss.heptapod.net/groups/mercurial/-/activity is much more interesting. - https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg-committed/ is mentioned but not https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel - there is a link towards https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/DeveloperRepos which does not mention https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel and contains dead links (http://bitbucket.org/mg/hg-i18n/, https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/developers/repositories) There is no link from the website towards https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/ContributingChanges, which mentions https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel and https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/Heptapod Moreover, the page https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/UsingExtensions gives an impressive list of extensions but we don't know about the version of Mercurial supported nor if the extensions are even maintained. I think evolve/topics and hg-git are nowadays quite important extensions for modern Mercurial, but they are just mentioned in alphabetic lists equally with extensions (I guess) no longer maintained and that do not work with Python 3 and recent Mercurial versions. Another point, https://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/ is still on Bitbucket. Sorry for this long list of problems, but my main message is that it would be good that someone spends few hours to update the website so that it gives a better impression of Mercurial. Best regards, Pierre _______________________________________________ Mercurial mailing list Mercurial@lists.mercurial-scm.org https://lists.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial
