darcs weekly news #13

News and discussions

1. Announcing darcs 2.1.2. Eric has released darcs 2.1.2. You can also find darcs 2.1.2 on hackage.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015915.html
   • http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/darcs
2. Character-based patch type. Andrew Robbins is developing a library for character level diffs that would allow for indentation and word patches as well as other fine granularity patches.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/015976.html
3. Digital Fountain Codes for Patch Distribution. Tom Hawkins has a proposal for using Digital Fountain Codes as a fast distributed protocol for transfering data between darcs repositories.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016016.html
4. Camp Update. Ian Lynagh has started an irregular news letter about Camp. Looks like he's accomplished a lot. Take a look at Camp today.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016044.html
5. Darcs Oversight Committee (Software Freedom Conservancy). Eric has proposed we create an oversight committee as part of joining the Software Freedom Conservancy.
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016107.html

Reviewers

Thanks to our patch reviewers this week!

• Christian Kellermann
• Eric Kow
• Dmitry Kurochkin
• Trent W. Buck

Want to receive recognition for helping with Darcs? Add yourself to the patch review team today so that Eric knows to send patches your way.

• http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/DarcsTeam

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1043 David Roundy

• avoid use of sort_coalesceFL in Patch.Real.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1043

issue1101 Christian Kellermann

• also display cc'ed recipients
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1101

issue1117 Christian Kellermann

• warn if file does not exist in whatsnew
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1117

Patches applied in the last week (44)

See text entry for details.