What's next for pbranch?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Waldemar <waldemar at beechwoods.com> wrote:
> I am contemplating using pbranch to deal with staggered release cycle at a
> large corporation that I am contracting for.  My primary concern is the
> stability of pbranch and the likelihood of it surviving in the next few
> years.  Can anyone comment on its chances of making it into the set released
> along with mercurial?  I could offer some development cycles if it could
> help in the process.

Well, I guess this is the kind of lobbying it's going to take. So far,
the Mercurial crew has not shown any interest in accepting pbranch
into hg/ext, despite an offer to convert its doctests into hg-style
tests.

I am still practically the only one hacking it, but I do not plan on
dropping it anytime soon. My next task is augmenting conflict
resolution for the octopus pmerges, and then pfinish as proposed by
Jesse. Speaking of whom, it seems the Netbeans folks are using pbranch
(or contemplating the option) to stage changes.

Peer is busy integrating pbranch into TortoiseHg, though I don't know
if that is going to be accepted into TortoiseHg proper. Steve?

Matt, any news on this? My offer to upgrade pbranch to use hg-style
tests still stands. And now Waldemar is offering some cycles, too.

Cheers,
-parren