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)

See text entry for details.