Hi everybody,
I thought it would be useful if we got back into the habit up summarising our weekly darcs activities. This is the first entry of what I hope to be Darcs Weekly News.
News and discussions
- hacking sprint (25/26 October)
We are now planning three sites for the upcoming darcs hacking sprint: Brighton (moved from Cambridge), Paris and Portland. More news as we finalise the venues in the next two weeks!
- performance benchmarking
Eric is working on integrating performance regression testing into the darcs buildbot. The progress is slow but steady!
- darcs 2 real world comparison
Jason analyses a comparison of darcs push between 1.0.9 and 2.0.2. http://blog.codersbase.com/2008/08/21/darcs-2-real-world-push-performance-evaluation/
- darcs weekly news
Most of darcs weekly news is automated, but we still need human editors! To help out, darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/darcs-news
Issues resolved in the last two weeks (5)
issue115 (Dmitry Kurochkin) match patches touching given files. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue115
issue823 (Dmitry Kurochkin) do not exit on keyboard interrupt when getting patches. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue823
issue936 (Dmitry Kurochkin) fix type witnesses configure check. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue936
issue950 (David Roundy) fix fix_filepath to work with --repodir (and add test demonstrating this). http://bugs.darcs.net/issue950
issue995 (Dmitry Kurochkin) changes --context : {--human-readable,--xml-output} have no effect. http://bugs.darcs.net/issue995
