darcs weekly news #12

News and discussions

1. Reasons to delay upgrading. Nathan Gray gives feedback as to why his team cannot yet switch to darcs2. Let's fix Nathan's bugs!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015511.html
2. darcs roadmap proposal. Eric has given us a roadmap for next six months of development. Get hacking!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015545.html
3. FYI: user-manual status. Trent W. Buck is making steady progress with revamping the user manual.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015571.html
4. New extension syntax -WError? How do you want to solve this? Managing compiler warnings is now a social requirement instead of a technical one.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015575.html
5. Buildbot uploads. Don't let the typos scare you away! Jules Colding, Zooko and others have the buildbots setup to upload the binaries as they build them!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015607.html
   • https://zooko.com/darcsbuildbot/uploads
6. transitioning to cabal. Darcs now builds with cabal.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015649.html
7. announcing darcs 2.1.1rc2. Try out our newest release candidate today.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015679.html
8. growing the darcs team again! Welcome Alexander Suresh Kerr Sittampalam to the world and congratulate Ganesh Sittampalam.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015681.html
9. new Windows Czar and Review Team. Salavtore has taken the title of Windows Czar and we have an official review team now. Join today!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015698.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/DarcsTeam
10. Software Freedom Conservancy agreement. The Darcs project may be joining the Software Freedom Conservancy.
    • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015684.html
11. [ANNOUNCE] darcs-fast-export. Miklos Vajna has put together a fast export from darcs to git.
    • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015704.html

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers this week!

We had a lot of reviewers this week, I hope I didn't miss anyone.

• Don Stewart
• Duncan Coutts
• Jason Dagit
• Trent Buck
• Petr Rockai
• Ganesh Sittampalam
• Lele Gaifax
• Christian Kellermann

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue525 David Roundy

• canonize output of sort_coalesceFL in AmendRecord.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue525

issue844 David Roundy

• don't call gzwrite with zero length.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue844

issue864 Tommy Pettersson

• check non-force replace against pending
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue864

issue1189 David Roundy

• define HAVE_SIGNALS in franchise build.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1189

issue1223 Eric Kow

• Fix broken init.sh test
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1223

Patches applied in the last week (282)

See text entry for details.