darcs weekly news #41

News and discussions

1. Ganesh Sittampalam sent patches enabling a long-asked feature, edition of patches at record time. Review is underway:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021452.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021487.html

2. Eric Kow modified the roadmap for darcs 2.4, now focussing on handling hashed repositories efficiently and meeting the needs of the GHC team:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021357.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021370.html
• http://wiki.darcs.net/Roadmap

3. Eric also met researchers working into Operational Transformation, and wrote a report of this exchange, aiming at making people of collaborative editing and revision control speak together and in a common language:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021382.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-September/021307.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1300 Kamil Dworakowski

• logfile deleted on unsucessful record
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1300

issue1582 Salvatore Insalaco

• bump required hashed-storage version to 0.3.8, to fix Windows-related file deletion errors.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1582

Patches applied in the last week (22)

See text entry for details.