[Project_owners] Announcing Mercurial at Mozdev

[Brian King]

Note that if you are working with the full Mozilla build toolset on 
Windows, Mercurial is now packaged with MozillaBuild from 1.3 onwards:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#MozillaBuild

Here is the bug that has more discussion on the defaults (Mercurial.ini) 
shipped with it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402224

- Brian

Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> We're happy to announce the availability of Mercurial for hosting 
> project sources at Mozdev.
> 
> Documentation can be found here:
> http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/MozdevMercurial
> 
> The biggest caveats:
> * CVS is still necessary for maintaining the website and downloads 
> (fixing this is on our roadmap)
> * Projects' source information page needs updated by the PO to include 
> information on Mercurial
> * We weren't planning on removing the old sources from CVS and we don't 
> have a mechanism for locking CVS, so it might slightly confusing to new 
> users or contributors as to where to get the canonical source for a 
> project if they switch to from CVS to Mercurial
> 
> If you're interested in having Mercurial setup for your project, head 
> over to the documentation page [1] and click the link to request a new 
> Mercurial repository.
> 
> -Doug
> 
> [1] http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/MozdevMercurial
> 
> -- 
> Douglas E. Warner <silfreed at silfreed.net> Site Developer
> Mozdev.org http://www.mozdev.org
> 
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