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[Elliot Murphy <elliot.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Matthew Revell
<matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17 May 2012 23:45, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I would like to propose removing the existing hg support. I think we
>> should remove rather than disable the hg import code because the
>> existing bzr-hg code is likely to bitrot further (it depends on
>> upstream Mercurial), and there isn't a lot of glue code in
>> Launchpad anyway; we won't save all that much time by keeping it in if
>> we want to reintroduce it later. Marking Mercurial imports as beta
>> doesn't seem reasonable either given only a small minority finishes
>> successfully anymore.
>
> Yeah, a 23.5% success rate is embarrassing and I agree that slapping a
> beta tag on it would be inappropriate.
>
> >From a Product Manager PoV, I agree that we should remove Mercurial
> imports but, as I say, I'd like to talk to the 40 lucky winners of the
> import lottery before we do anything, to give them a chance to make
> other arrangements etc.

This makes sense, you have my support. Thank you both for taking this on.
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Elliot Murphy | https://launchpad.net/~statik/