Paul has a new role: Community Manager for the GlassFish Community. The role initially was held by Jim, Amy and Carla, then by Shreedhar and then by Jamey in an interim basis but for quite a while we have been making-do with a number of us pooling our "spare" time. Paul will be working on this pretty much full-time, which is sorely needed. Check out Paul's introduction, and you might as well check out his latest update on the Conversion of GFv3 to Hg.

The plan is for the main GlassFish projects to move to Mercurial (see related entries). Recently, Jerome explained that the core project was taking a detour through SVN, but in the case of the GlassFish-CORBA project Ken reports they are transitioning directly from TeamWare (like OpenSolaris).

We are taking a detour through SVN on the way from CVS to Hg. It is a combination of (lack of) maturity of the conversion tools from CVS to Hg, plus window of opportunity closing on us, plus constraints in some of our available infrastructure. This is a temporary detour but will let us continue with the modularization work needed for GlassFish v3. Check details in Jerome's Road to Hg writeup. Also see older TA posts.

I think those hairpins match this hybrid view from Google Maps. Also see Ask Results for more images.

More research by Kohsuke on using Mercurial in GlassFish v3. Last week he reported on how to Move Changes across repositories; now he reports on a GFv3 temporary repository at hg.glassfish.dyndns.ORG. Check Kohsuke's write-up; it includes instructions to create a clone of the GFv3 repository and build it using the GFv3 Instructions.

Paul Sterk is doing additional work on Hg and GF and we will keep you posted on progress. Earlier TA entries on Hg are available here.

Summer is almost over and the different projects are showing renewed activity, and that includes GlassFish v3. Arun has been doing a number of screencasts around Ruby recently and the latest one shows How to Run jRuby on V3.

Other GFv3-related activity already announced includes working on the Separate JSP Project and Hg Plugin for Hudson. Stay tuned for more; things should start picking up in speed after we get GlassFish v2 out. That is still scheduled for mid-next month.

Here are instructions, from Martin, on how to Run Mercurial on GlassFish. For more information on Mercurial, check: Wiki home page, Features, Quick Start, and Map of CVS Concepts. Also see our earlier blog and Neuron's blog.