darcs weekly news #39

News and discussions

1. Taylor Campbell brought up the topic of filecache as an optimisation for darcs, which helped Eric Kow pointing to the relevant action, tools and bug tickets:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021018.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021022.html

2. Duncan Coutts brought figures about darcs 2.3's poor performance with darcs-1 repositories:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021062.html

3. Jason Dagit made some experiments by versionning the source code of Linux into darcs, and trying to enhance CPU and memory efficiency of darcs record:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/021076.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1373 Trent W. Buck

• don't use a broken example.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1373

issue1548 Trent W. Buck

• show contents requires at least one argument.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1548

issue1578 Judah Jacobson

• Don't put newlines in the Haskeline prompts.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1578

Patches applied in the last week (28)

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darcs weekly news #38

News and discussions

1. Petr Rockai posted his last Summer of Code report, summing up the work he did, the work left, and its integration into the official darcs branch:

• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_final_report.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020900.html

2. A discussion occured about darcs continuing (or not) to support old repositories formats, and users difficulties to switch from the darcs-1 format:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020906.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020967.html

3. Eric Kow reported about his work on triaging bugs in the darcs bug tracker:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020951.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue183 Eric Kow

• Do not sort changes --summary output.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue183

Patches applied in the last week (17)

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darcs weekly news #37

News and discussions

1. Following a proposal by Eric Kow, the darcs team switched to a commit-bit development model. Now there is no longer a Patch Manager, and several developers have commit rights to the main repository or darcs:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020727.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020796.html

2. Petr Rockai passed the release manager hat to Reinier Lamers, and Thorkil Naur passed the issue manager hat to Eric Kow:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020738.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020794.html

3. End of Summer of Code is approaching. Discussion and reviews concerning the coming merge of Petr's hashed-storage patches into the main darcs repository are going on:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-August/020780.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-July/020698.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (3)

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darcs weekly news #36

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.3.0 is now available. More information in the announcement:

• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/darcs_2.3.0.html
• http://www.darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.3.0.tar.gz
• http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries

2. Petr Rockai posted two new entries about his Summer of Code work on "Fast darcs":

• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_9.html
• http://web.mornfall.net/blog/soc_progress_10.html

3. Max Battcher proposed a way to easily implement in-repo local branches a la git or mercurial:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-July/020565.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (38)

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