Here at Avantlumiere, we just love it when our users are creative on our behalf. Be it suggesting cool features or writing tools that work with Bitbucket, it’s a great feeling.

This time, Peter Hosey has been creative and created a Mercurial extension that allows for a different style of specifying URLs to Bitbucket.

$ hg clone bb://username/repo
..or..
$ hg push bb://username/repo
..or how about..
$ hg push bb+ssh://username/repo

How cool is that? For those of you who have used bzr, and like the lp: style syntax, this comes close. Here’s how to install it:

$ mkdir ~/.hgext
$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/boredzo/bitbucketextension/ ~/.hgext/bbext

Now make your ~/.hgrc look like this:

[extensions]
bitbucketextension = /my/home/dir/.hgext/bbext/bitbucketrepo

That should do it! Thanks Peter!

There’s a new Django mirror up, this time just the trunk. It’s in sync with the Django SVN, but this time it’s only 21.7 mb, and not the full 137.5 mb.

Go fork, play with it, let loose!

Our server center in Amsterdam, was down yesterday, receiving a large dDOS. The main server was unreachable in certain parts of the world, unfortunately.

We apologize for the inconvenience. The total downtime was about 20 minutes.

More info here.

Armin Ronacher of Pocoo wrote a few words about us, and he also decided to contribute to the project with a brand spankin’ new diff viewer! It’s already deployed, so you can all enjoy it now.

http://twitter.com/jespern/statuses/912846854.

Coming soon.

According to Alexa, we’re Big in Japan. Cool!

Eirik has written up a guide on how to use the new issue tracker, and the guide will be posted shortly.