Bitbucket Dropping Support For Mercurial

'Bitbucket, once one of the largest Mercurial repository hosting
sites, said Tuesday it plans to remove Mercurial features and
repositories from its platform on June 1, 2020. In a blog post,
Bitbucket wrote:

As we surpass 10 million registered users on the platform, we're at a
point in our growth where we are conducting a deeper evaluation of the
market and how we can best support our users going forward. After much
consideration, we've decided to remove Mercurial support from
Bitbucket Cloud and its API.

Bitbucket will stop letting users create new Mercurial repositories
starting February 1, 2020, and start removing all the Mercurial
repositories four months later. So you will want to backup your
repositories and switch to a different platform in the coming months.
A different user pointed out, "Another shitty aspect of bitbucket
dropping mercurial support and deleting all the old repositories in
2020: all yt pull request discussions from before 2017 are going to be
deleted. There's valuable context for how the code got written in
those discussions." Several users have expressed their concerns over
this decision. Sebastien Jodogne, CSO at Osimis, said, "This is an
extremely concerning decision that endangers diversity in the computer
science industry by pushing the de facto hegemony of git."

For those of you affected by this, you can consider a number of
platforms including SourceForge to host and manage your repositories.
'

-- source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/08/20/1654253

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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