Mercurial book repo gone

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 20:48, Guido Ostkamp <hg at ostkamp.fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 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.


It seemed to me that he didn't really have any plans with it -- and seeing
as he published it under the Open Publication license, I think he wouldn't
mind if we take it a little further, without diminishing his attribution.


> 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?


Yes, I see the same. I have been looking at them, but wanted to verify
closely that all the changes are superficial, or if not, why they have
changed and if it's intentional. For that, I need to dive in bit more and
find out exactly how this thing fits together.


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


Depends on the patch size, of course. Trivial or clear patches (that is,
typos or clearly-good content improvements) can go in within 24-48 hours,
usually. For now, I'll need some time to figure the example tests, but if
people send in patches that don't change the state of the example tests,
that would be alright. Might need a few days to get that fixed and publish
an up-to-date version.


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


No, I meant the mercurial-dev list. I'm not sure it would be a good idea to
mix patches for Mercurial and the book on one list, though. Maybe an extra
list should be set up, but that would seem like overkill while we don't know
how much interest there is in contributing patches.

Cheers,

Dirkjan
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