[pony-build] Next steps for Khushboo and Fatima

[C. Titus Brown]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:54:41PM -0600, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:55 AM, C. Titus Brown wrote:
>>
>> Second, one of you could implement branch support for HgClone.  Right
>> now GitClone supports branches other than 'master', the default, while
>> HgClone does not support branches other than 'default'.  I know beans
>> about Mercurial, though, so this would be a reasonably independent
>> research project ;).  To get started, here are some things you could  
>> do --
>
> In practice, using non-default branches in OSS is pretty rare. We're  
> using it for Mercurial itself, but only for tracking "stable" versus  
> "default," which is pretty minimal all told. When bookmarks become  
> pushable (no real firm timeline on that), they'll probably see much more 
> use.

Hmm, didn't know that -- thanks!  I want to support them so that
we can test experimental branches and default branches from the same
repository.  It seems like a git-tish thing, maybe.

>> I can hook you up with one of the Mercurial maintainers quite easily  
>> if you
>> need that level of expertise, BTW.  (You shouldn't but it's always  
>> nice to
>> have it on tap!)
>
> I'm around, I'm not a member of crew, but I've done quite a bit with  
> Mercurial internals and can easily get ahold of them if there's a  
> question I can't answer. Also, I'm in UTC-6, so I'm probably a bit  
> closer TZ-wise to you folks. Feel free to ask questions in #mercurial - 
> it's well staffed by experts from morning in Europe until fairly late in 
> the day in the US. mercurial{,-devel>@selenic.com are both good resources 
> as well, with more eyes but higher latency.

Thanks!

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu