Monday, August 31, 2009

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

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1373 Trent W. Buck
issue1548 Trent W. Buck
issue1578 Judah Jacobson

Patches applied in the last week (28)

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Monday, August 24, 2009

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:
  1. A discussion occured about darcs continuing (or not) to support old repositories formats, and users difficulties to switch from the darcs-1 format:
  1. Eric Kow reported about his work on triaging bugs in the darcs bug tracker:

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue183 Eric Kow

Patches applied in the last week (17)

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

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

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (3)

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Sunday, August 2, 2009

darcs weekly news #36

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.3.0 is now available. More information in the announcement:
2. Petr Rockai posted two new entries about his Summer of Code work on "Fast darcs":
3. Max Battcher proposed a way to easily implement in-repo local branches a la git or mercurial:

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (38)

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