> The future of Mercurial is that of scalability and because of that, I believe the best days of Mercurial are ahead.
That sounded to me like Mercurial has started to carve their own niche after losing the popularity war to git (maybe just my wishful thinking?), and this may have very good outcomes since currently all scalable mainstream vcs choices are centralized.
Git developers showed they're hardly interested in this area, and Mercurial have had some head start with the contributions from Facebook. I don't think anybody would object it if we had a free dvcs that can respond to very high scalability needs without hacking around its deficiencies. This is the point where Mercurial project should reconsider its priorities and even put some of their current priorities into back seat if that's what it gets to achieve their new goals with no compromises.
That sounded to me like Mercurial has started to carve their own niche after losing the popularity war to git (maybe just my wishful thinking?), and this may have very good outcomes since currently all scalable mainstream vcs choices are centralized.
Git developers showed they're hardly interested in this area, and Mercurial have had some head start with the contributions from Facebook. I don't think anybody would object it if we had a free dvcs that can respond to very high scalability needs without hacking around its deficiencies. This is the point where Mercurial project should reconsider its priorities and even put some of their current priorities into back seat if that's what it gets to achieve their new goals with no compromises.
My best wishes for Mercurial, go for it!