darcs weekly news #5

2009-02-14 This is a back-posting of an older darcs weekly news article from before the creation of blog.darcs.net. I'll be trickling these in to minimise disruption to people's RSS readers

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News and discussions

1. Second pre-release of darcs 2.1.0 (formerly known as 2.0.3) This version of darcs will produce darcs-2 format repositories by default
   • http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.1.0pre2.tar.gz
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013977.html
2. New issue manager - Thorkil Naur. The darcs team now has an official Issue Manager role. Thorkil will be ensuring that incoming reports are responded to in a timely manner, and that all bugs are eventually moved to a resolved state.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013887.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013920.html
3. Hoogling the darcs source?
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-September/013976.html

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue27 David Roundy

• add junk to patch identifiers.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue27

issue53 Eric Kow

• check for windows filename validity in darcs add/mv.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue53

issue805 David Roundy

• make darcs-2 format the default for new repositories.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue805

issue1039 Dmitry Kurochkin

• detect seemingly unrelated repositories when doing push, pull and send.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1039

issue1041 Vlad Dogaru

• Get: if URL is invalid, direcotry is not created (#1041)
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1041

Patches applied in the last week (54)

See text entry for details.