Hi all, as some of you might have noticed by watching the IRC channel, we are finally migrating to mercurial. The actual conversion of the repository will happen at some point during next week (or maybe the week after). One issue that we have to care about is how to convert the author names: in the current svn repository each author is simply indicated by its codespeak username, while with mercurial this is no longer possible as there is no longer a "centralized" server where everyone has an account. In mercurial an author is just a string, but the standard way is put both the real name and a valid email address to uniquely identify the author. This is exploited by websites like e.g. bitbucket to link the author of the commit to the bitbucket user. For doing the conversion, we will use the following usermap: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/planning/hg-migration/usermap.txt By default, we map each username to its real name, as found in the /etc/passwd file on codespeak.net. Because of the reasons I explained above, I strongly recommend everyone to put its email address there, so that it will be there in the final mercurial repository. If for any reason you don't want your real name to be in the mercurial repository, please kill the corresponding line in the file. Note that it won't be possible to change the info after the conversion has been made. ciao, Anto