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author Arne Babenhauserheide <bab@draketo.de>
date Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:48:31 +0200
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1 Hi ml,
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3 I would like to public announce a project to create a new end-user website for Mercurial. We have been working on that
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4 in the underground for the last two weeks and are now ready for the initial dump of our efforts.
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6 What?
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7 We are working on creating a new beginner-friendly website for Mercurial. It is not a replacement for the current wiki,
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8 but it should make it easier for new users to learn what Mercurial is, how to use and obtain it. We do not aim to
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9 provide neither detailed technical documentation on the website, nor guides to write extensions. We try to focus on
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10 Mercurials end-user, and want to reflect Mercurials simplicity and strenghts for this target audience by writing
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11 beginner guides, pointing to documentation and providing migration guides.
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13 Why?
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14 The current wiki is a great place for all details around Mercurial, but it lacks a good structure so that new users get
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15 the necessary details to start with Mercurial fast.
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17 How can you help?
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18 We currently do not have much manpower, but we need it. If you do not know how to hack on Mercurial itself but want to
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19 help the community, this is a perfect opportunity. Go write a easy to understand guide, get your hands dirty with the
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20 HTML or design new fancy icons, screenshots, etc and integrate them. We do not need great python hackers, we need people
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21 coming from Mercurial user base who have fun in writing or reviewing texts. If you are a native speaker, just go through
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22 the page and fix our faults. If you have a one line fix, don't hesitate to send a patch. We are happy about every help
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23 that we can get. Checkout the text/structure file and the hg-website wiki at bitbucket for more information on what is
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24 currently cooking.
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26 How to get your hands dirty:
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27 Grab the source from http://bitbucket.org/segv/hg-website/overview/ and send patches or pull requests to the mercurial
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28 developer mailinglist list.
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30 Who, when and where?!
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31 We try to get the page online as soon as possible and provide easy to remember domains for that purpose. Thanks to
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32 bitbucket.org and Jesper Noehr who provided and sponsored the layout, Arne Babenhauserheide for collecting information,
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33 structuring the page and writing texts and Matt for providing hosting.
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