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Anyone know what Matt Mackall is up to these days? He started Mercurial and got people involved early on with a lot of enthusiasm, you could tell he cared about
by idank 5mo ago
Anyone know what Matt Mackall is up to these days? He started Mercurial and got people involved early on with a lot of enthusiasm, you could tell he cared about what he created and the people who joined him ("hg crew"). I learned a lot from him on how to think like an engineer and saw him manage different personalities in the project in a kind and sincere way (I think this was around ~2010).
- interroboink 5mo agoFYI: Matt Mackall is now Olivia Mackall [1], so that can make searching for things harder. Looks like they work at Valve, now? Agreed that they were a really stabilizing and healthy personality in the project, and made a lot of good early decisions, which Mercurial has continually benefited from. Eg: the commitment to backwards-compatibility [2]. [1] https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg-stable/rev/d4ba4d51f85f https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg-stable/rev/d4ba4d51f85f [2] https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/CompatibilityRules https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/CompatibilityRules
- sunshowers 5mo agoOlivia uses she/her, and I believe she is now retired :) I owe her and the Mercurial community a great debt. The community taught me how to think like an engineer building infrastructure and the importance of backwards compatibility, something I've tried to carry forward in tools like cargo-nextest.
- tonfa 5mo ago+1 I learned so much about software engineering (Software design, network protocol incl how to handle backward compat in sane ways, ...) thanks to the mercurial community.