darcs weekly news #30

News and discussions

1. Petr Rockai provided us with an update about his Summer of Code project:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019886.html

2. Eric Kow launched a new test version of darcsit, the replacement of darcs.net's wiki:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019915.html
• http://test.darcs.net

3. Discussions have started around the release schedule of Darcs 2.3, which will be released this summer:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019920.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019937.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1229 Petr Rockai

• strictify checkPristineAgainstSlurpy.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1229

Patches applied in the last week (43)

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darcs weekly news #29

News and discussions

1. Eric Kow provided us with an update about the expenditures of the funds raised before the sprint:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019737.html

2. Simon Marlow explained the current workflow of the GHC team with darcs and the needs of the developers, which lead to a discussion on a darcs equivalent to git rebase and hg transplant:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019748.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019777.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019778.html

Issues resolved in the last week (4)

issue1173 Salvatore Insalaco

• support hard links on NTFS.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1173

issue1248 Ganesh Sittampalam

• 1248: support compressed inventories for darcs-1 repos
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1248

issue1351 Salvatore Insalaco

• fix repository path handling on Windows.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1351

issue1455 Trent W. Buck

• implement "darcs help environment".
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1455

Patches applied in the last week (47)

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darcs joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

We are pleased to announce that Darcs has joined the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Conservancy is an organisation composed of Free and Open Source Software projects.

Joining it gives us the benefits of a formal legal structure: the ability to collect donations and hold assets, as well as protection of Darcs hackers from legal liability. The Software Freedom Conservancy is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, so member projects can receive tax-deductible donations to the extent allowed by law.

Many thanks go to the SFC for their work to support the FOSS community.

darcs weely news #28

News and discussions

1. Ganesh Sittampalam gave us an update about progress on crc error handling:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019633.html

2. Neil Mitchell asked about how to use "darcs send" when the remote server is unavailable:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-May/019620.html

3. The GHC team announced that the migration from darcs to git was no longer a priority, given the recent developments of darcs:

• http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May09

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1312 Trent W. Buck

• update and reduce build notes.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1312

issue1435 Trent W. Buck

• default to get --hashed from a darcs-1.0 source.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1435

Patches applied in the last week (11)

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