Mercurial book repo gone

[Guido Ostkamp]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> I just talked to him, but he seems very, very busy.

I appreciate that Bryan wrote and published the book.

I do not know his plans - I would not be surprised if he would like to 
sell the rights for paper publishing to O'Reilly or someone similar one 
day, but honestly as the book says 'I also hope that readers will 
contribute as they see fit' I had expected him to at least arrange for an 
interim maintainer when he got to know that he will be busy for a long 
time.

> I think I can spend some cycles on maintaining the book. I have the repo 
> mentioned before setup:
>
> http://hg.xavamedia.nl/mercurial/hgbook
>
> Which people can pull/clone from (it's linked from the book building 
> page in the wiki, too).
>
> I'll accept changesets by private email for now, though I am not yet 
> sure what the best way for this would be. Maybe we can borrow the 
> development list for book patches, as well?

Thank you very much for this, this is most welcome!

I can see that the 'running examples' section in the Makefile is not 
executing properly due to changes in the Mercurial output.

Can you please confirm you see the same?

If yes, I could fix the output that is used for comparison and send you 
some patches - unless somebody else wants to do it - I just want to avoid 
double work. I would need some time, as for some changes it is not clear 
to me whether the example is working correctly.

How soon can we expect you to integrate them once you receive patches?

Regarding a development list for the book - I was not aware that something 
existed. Can you share details?

Regards

Guido