darcs weekly news #11

News and discussions

1. Sad news and steady changes. David will be stepping down from leadership of the darcs project, with Eric taking over in these new roles.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015506.html
2. Planet darcs. New aggregator for blogs from the darcs community. Posts to the planet are mainly but not necessarily always related to darcs
   • http://planet.darcs.net
3. Standard darcs benchmarks. Let's get serious about numbers.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/015312.html
4. Haskell talk at Columbia Area Linux Users Group. Andrew Robbins talks about "How the Haskell programming language promotes bug-free software.by enforcing heavy restrictions on source code, and on several open source software projects that use Haskell for this purpose (darcs, parsec, xmonad, yi)."
   • http://calug.org/meetings.html
   • http://calug.org/meetings/2008/09/10.1/haskell.odp
   • http://calug.org/meetings/2008/09/10.1/haskell.ppt
5. How does conflict marking work? Ian peers into the heart of conflict marking.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015467.html
6. New camp trac and mailing list!
   • http://trac.haskell.org/camp/report/1
   • http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/camp

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers this week!

• Trent Buck
• Jason Dagit
• Florent Becker

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1183 Thorkil Naur

• newline after "Skipping depended-upon patch:"
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1183

Patches applied in the last week (99)

See text entry for details.