darcs weekly news #7

2009-02-03 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. Darcs 2.1.0 released! With 20 bug fixes and 7 new features. Notable changes: darcs-2 repositories by default, HTTP robustness and better pending patch handling.
   • http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.1.0.tar.gz
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/014504.html
2. Optimising darcs annotate. Darcs annotate is too slow. Proposed solution: create a cache mapping filenames to patches. Stay tuned for fast annotate in the future...
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/014371.html
3. Eleven new contributors since darcs 2.0.2. Thanks, Alex, Florent, Gaetan, Judah, Matthias, Max, Nathaniel, Steve, Taylor, Thorkil, and Vlad!

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers for this week for giving David a hand!

• Trent Buck
• Tommy Pettersson

Issues resolved in the last week (6)

issue1104 Dmitry Kurochkin

• stop progress reports in exec.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1104

issue1109 Dmitry Kurochkin

• stop progress reports in exec_interactive.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1109

issue1111 Tommy Pettersson

• patchset_intersection used wrong selection for partitionRL
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1111

issue1124 Thorkil Naur

• Test pull.sh failed when run as root
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1124

issue1128 Benjamin Franksen

• must call execSendmail inside body of withOpenTemp
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1128

issue1131 Dmitry Kurochkin

• accept download requests for different files.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1131

Patches applied in the last week (35)

See text entry for details.