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.
Services
What we do
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.
After a first life as a mathematician, I
started to develop professionally with
Python in the mid 2000's, by the times of
Python 2.3. I've been working since then
mostly on custom business applications with
various frameworks.
In 2010, I co-founded Anybox, a small french
Python software development company, in
which I assumed various systems
administration and dev-ops duties on top of
development and project management.
Most recently (2018), I authored an intermediate
framework for stocks and logistics
management, tentatively called Anyblok / WMS
Base (AWB).
I've been following with most interest the
progress of the Rust programming language since
around 2013 and became more and more
enthousiastic about it.
For more than ten years now, Mercurial has
been my VCS of choice, and I had more than
one occasion to dig into its
internals. I've been very thrilled by its
recent developments, and in particular the
concept of changeset evolution introduced by
Pierre-Yves.
Since 2019, I'm working at Octobus on
upstream Mercurial development in Rust
and Python, on promoting Heptapod, while following up on AWB
technical and commercial development.
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.
After studying information and communication sciences, I progressively grew interest in User Experience and computer engineering.
It was the early days of widespread personal computing, multimedia and the Web.
I became a Python developer around 2008, while I was discovering Linux and became dedicated to Free Software.
I've worked in several industries and for startups, assuming many of the roles related to software development including Developer, Project Manager, Product Owner, DevOps, CTO.
I challenge myself to always keep on learning and evolving.
I joined Octobus in 2022. Beside working as a developer, I'm also helping growing up the Mercurial and Heptapod DevOps platform communities with actions such as organizing the Mercurial Paris conference.
A learning student, vibrant programmer and a proud open source
contributor. Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree from
Computer Science. I want to explore various fields and I go
about the phrase, "Learn everything of something and something
of everything". Kind of a helping nature inside me that lead me
to being a mentor in Google-Code-In. Earlier, I have worked on
dry-run project in Mercurial. Now, working on
the changeset evolution concept for Mercurial, a way for
developers to safely exchange and rewrite draft changesets.
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.