Sunday, March 29, 2009

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

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue1162 Ben Franksen
issue1301 Trent W. Buck
issue1373 Trent W. Buck
issue1402 Trent W. Buck
issue1405 Trent W. Buck

Patches applied in the last week (31)

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

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!
2. This money is going to be put into use very soon:
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:
4. Darcs was not accepted as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organisation, but we still may fit as a Haskell.org project:

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1358 Reinier Lamers
issue1393 Trent W. Buck

Patches applied in the last week (15)

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

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!
2. Support for libwww and curl/wget dropped, darcs now relies only on libcurl or on the Haskell HTTP module:
3. Bertram Felgenhauer submitted a patch that greatly reduces memory usage of `darcs check` and `darcs repair`:

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1271 Trent W. Buck
issue1366 Trent W. Buck
issue1379 Trent W. Buck

Patches applied in the last week (33)

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

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:
2. Haskeline, a Haskell module providing readline-like features, has been adopted as the module for command line input:
3. Eric Kow proposed a first draft of the Google Summer of Code application:

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (15)

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Sunday, March 1, 2009

darcs weekly news #19

News and discussions

1. Eric Kow issued a call for mentors for Google Summer of Code 2009:
2. Gitit test instance now running. We are testing a darcs-based wiki as a replacement for the current wiki of darcs.net:

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (10)

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