darcs weekly news #23

News and discussions

1. Jason Dagit completed his master thesis about ensuring correctness ofdarcs with Haskell's type system, and made it available to all:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018634.html

2. Reinier Lamers launched a discussion about improving automated tests, and plans to contribute work about it during the incoming sprint:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018593.html

• http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Sprints/2009-04

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue1162 Ben Franksen

• makeAbsolute is now a total function
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1162

issue1301 Trent W. Buck

• remove obsolete zsh completion scripts.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1301

issue1373 Trent W. Buck

• make --token-chars [^ tn] work as advertised.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1373

issue1402 Trent W. Buck

• don't "phone home" about bugs.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1402

issue1405 Trent W. Buck

• improve discoverability of global author file.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1405

Patches applied in the last week (31)

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darcs weekly news #22

News and discussions

1. A big THANK YOU for the 23 donors of the darcs fundraising drive. We managed to raise $1000 for darcs in one week!

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018447.html
• http://darcs.net/donations.html

2. This money is going to be put into use very soon:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018511.html

3. Discussions about reusing the curl bindings present on hackage instead of darcs' own. The author, Sigbjorn Finne, has been contacted for some improvements on the bindings:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018463.html

4. Darcs was not accepted as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organisation, but we still may fit as a Haskell.org project:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018516.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018532.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1358 Reinier Lamers

• encode non-ASCII characters in mail headers
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1358

issue1393 Trent W. Buck

• swap "darcs mv" and "darcs move".
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1393

Patches applied in the last week (15)

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darcs weekly news #21

News and discussions

1. Darcs fundraising is already halfway! We have gathered more than $500 on our objective of $1000 to help developers attend the upcoming Haskell Hackaton. Spread the word!

• http://www.darcs.net/donations.html
• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/84nyi/

2. Support for libwww and curl/wget dropped, darcs now relies only on libcurl or on the Haskell HTTP module:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018147.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018341.html

3. Bertram Felgenhauer submitted a patch that greatly reduces memory usage of `darcs check` and `darcs repair`:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018244.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018252.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1271 Trent W. Buck

• do not install two copies of darcs.pdf.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1271

issue1366 Trent W. Buck

• remove unreachable code for direct ncurses use.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1366

issue1379 Trent W. Buck

• remove libwww support.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1379

Patches applied in the last week (33)

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darcs weekly news #20

News and discussions

1. The first darcs fundraising has started! Help the darcs project to raise $1000 to pay for travel expenses of the approaching darcs sprint:

• http://www.darcs.net/donations.html

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018064.html

2. Haskeline, a Haskell module providing readline-like features, has been adopted as the module for command line input:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018122.html

3. Eric Kow proposed a first draft of the Google Summer of Code application:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-March/018193.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (15)

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darcs weekly news #19

News and discussions

1. Eric Kow issued a call for mentors for Google Summer of Code 2009:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/018002.html

2. Gitit test instance now running. We are testing a darcs-based wiki as a replacement for the current wiki of darcs.net:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017992.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (10)

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