Octobus provides you with commercial support for Mercurial, a free, distributed source control management tool. Our team of experts has an extensive experience with Mercurial and can help you with any aspect of its usages. Octobus was founded by Pierre-Yves David, one of the major contributors to Mercurial. Since 2010, we have landed thousands of changesets, fixed hundreds of bugs and brought major upgrades to it.
Let us know how we can help you.
We can provide a large range of services around Mercurial: performance improvement, new feature development, migration and deployment, extensions development for custom needs, bug fixes, users training, etc.
We offer DevOps consulting and Python related
services: web performance debugging and improvements, Python
testing training and tooling.
Finally, we can help you to add Rust to your codebase to help with
performance and get your engineers up-to-speed.
I am passionate about developer tools and workflow improvement. In 2010, I was working on testing and continuous integration when I started looking into the Mercurial project. Over the years, I have become one of the largest contributors to Mercurial, with thousands of direct contributions and reviews. I drove multiple deep changes both user-visible (e.g.: the phases concept) and internal (e.g.: new bundle and exchange format, unifying transaction logic, etc.). I have created the changeset evolution concept, a way for developers to safely exchange and rewrite draft changesets. I am currently focusing on getting it to completion. In 2017, I founded Octobus to put my expertise at the service of improving the experience of other developers.
Originally focused on full-stack web development working with
Python and Javascript, from
infrastructure and cloud management with Terraform and Ansible
to front-end development with React/Redux, I now spend most of
my time doing low-level programming and learning about language
design.
I have taken a keen interest in the Rust programming language
and have become the largest contributor to its integration
within the Mercurial codebase.
My main goal is to make Mercurial go faster.
The experience gained since the beginning of my professional life has led me to the position of Administrative and Financial Manager at Octobus, which I joined at the end of August 2020. After training in international trade, I worked in a variety of businesses: - Technical saleswoman in a textile company; - Service manager in a textile logistics company; - Many years as an export sales assistant and sedentary sales administration in metallurgy, medical plastic, food plastic packaging; Then I went back to school and turned to human resource management. I worked in this new profession in a company working in the field of medical devices. Resolutely focused on others, I now have the opportunity to use my wide range of skills in this new adventure.
Started using Mercurial as a part of my job back in 2010, started contributing to the core project in 2014 and to the Evolve extension in 2016, now am a co-maintainer of Evolve. Having this broad range of experiences as both user and developer and contributions to a wide variety of areas from hgweb themes to key user-facing commands helps me in trying to make lives of users (and developers) of Mercurial easier.