[lifeisstillgood]

This is likely to be a painless (if it works) transition mechanism for companies that chose mercurial and now want to follow git.

I respect fogcreek and avidly read everything Joel wrote at the turn of the century. But I had a years free kiln hosting that I must have used twice after setup and I just found GitHub so much cleaner and, well, it worked with git.

Being quiet for a year is not the sign of excellent planning and product management either - if they had this great plan 12 mths ago and knew it would take this long then go do it fine, but hire some oter guys to keep inching the rest of the product along - 12 mths is just dead. I am guessing they realised they had backed the wrong horse and tried to make a compatible product - when really just cloning GitHub and aiming at Joel's core sme market would work.

Edit Should not be knocking the technical effort and work here - just the strategy...