New Mercurial Website

[Steve Losh]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:

> On 02.11.2009 14:25, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 13:31, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> There is no need to start an entirely different platform
>>> that is doomed to be byte rotten from the start because no
>>> one will update it.
>>
>> Not having everyone update it also means coherent language,  
>> structure,
>> content and more quality control.
>
> Oh. So you say our current wiki has incoherent language and structure?
>
> Where exactly?
>
Quick example off the top of my head: the Release Notes page. The  
table of contents has a bunch of headings for 1.3.0 only. Are there  
not subsections for the other versions? Oh, no, they're there, they're  
just not marked as headings for some reason.

I can send a whole slew of examples later once I'm at a computer and  
not a phone, if you like.

> You are missing the point of what a wiki is. Or what it could be.
>
>> And content may be king, having the abundance of content that's on  
>> our
>> wiki makes it hard to find the good parts and keep everything up to
>> date.
>
> Not at all.
Really? The API hasn't changed since 1.1? Because that's the version  
listed on the MercurialAPI page.

Reading the API changes page it looks like the API page *has* been  
updated (it mentions ui.promptchoice) but still says "as of version  
1.1". So actually the page is not out of date but completely *wrong*  
-- if you try to use it to code against the version of Mercurial it  
says it describes (1.1) you'll probably run into problems.

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