darcs weekly news #34

News and discussions

1. Petr Rockai announced availability of Darcs 2.3 beta 1, via regular download and cabal install:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020275.html

2. Petr Rockai's fast darcs Summer of Code progess reports 5 and 6:

• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_5.html
• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_6.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (17)

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darcs weekly news #33

News and discussions

1. Petr Rockai announced the feature freeze of the darcs 2.3 branch:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020232.html

2. A few darcs hackers asked Neil Mitchell to augment hlint with darcs-specific rules:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020222.html

3. Petr Rockai's Soc Progress #4 :

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020191.html
• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_4.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (27)

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darcs weekly news #32

News and discussions

1. Eric Kow announced that darcs 2.3 and later will not be compilable with GHC 6.6:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020127.html

2. Matthias Kilian put online a mirror of GHC's repository in hashed format, and compared performance of darcs get on the different repositories:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020125.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020141.html

3. Petr Rockai's Summer of Code Progress: ``I have worked on documenting the index format (and code), some minor cleanup and interoperability improvements.''

• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_3.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020123.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1412 Reinier Lamers

• also adjust maxline in PatchCheck upon insert_line
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1412

Patches applied in the last week (12)

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darcs weekly news #31

News and discussions

1. Juliusz Chroboczek released a new stable version of vc-darcs.el, a darcs plugin for Emacs:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020042.html

2. An update from Petr Rockai's Summer of Code : ``The hashed-storage patches have started to trickle into mainline darcs"

• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_2.html

3. Eric Kow launched a call for volunteers to help reviewing the hashed-storage module developed by Pietr during his SoC work:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020052.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1343 Trent W. Buck

• mention darcs-users is subscriber-only, use --from.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1343

issue1465 Trent W. Buck

• ortryrunning should check error code.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1465

Patches applied in the last week (35)

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darcs weekly news #30

News and discussions

1. Petr Rockai provided us with an update about his Summer of Code project:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019886.html

2. Eric Kow launched a new test version of darcsit, the replacement of darcs.net's wiki:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019915.html
• http://test.darcs.net

3. Discussions have started around the release schedule of Darcs 2.3, which will be released this summer:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019920.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019937.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1229 Petr Rockai

• strictify checkPristineAgainstSlurpy.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1229

Patches applied in the last week (43)

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darcs weekly news #29

News and discussions

1. Eric Kow provided us with an update about the expenditures of the funds raised before the sprint:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019737.html

2. Simon Marlow explained the current workflow of the GHC team with darcs and the needs of the developers, which lead to a discussion on a darcs equivalent to git rebase and hg transplant:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019748.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019777.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019778.html

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1173 Salvatore Insalaco

• support hard links on NTFS.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1173

issue1248 Ganesh Sittampalam

• 1248: support compressed inventories for darcs-1 repos
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1248

issue1351 Salvatore Insalaco

• fix repository path handling on Windows.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1351

issue1455 Trent W. Buck

• implement "darcs help environment".
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1455

Patches applied in the last week (47)

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darcs joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

We are pleased to announce that Darcs has joined the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Conservancy is an organisation composed of Free and Open Source Software projects.

Joining it gives us the benefits of a formal legal structure: the ability to collect donations and hold assets, as well as protection of Darcs hackers from legal liability. The Software Freedom Conservancy is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, so member projects can receive tax-deductible donations to the extent allowed by law.

Many thanks go to the SFC for their work to support the FOSS community.