darcs weekly news #52

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.4 beta 2 was released, including the fix for performance regression with check and repair:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022917.html

2. Fundraising update: $782 were given, still $1218 to go!

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022915.html
   • http://darcs.net/donations.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1731 Reinier Lamers

• bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.5
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1731

Patches applied in the last week (15)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #51

News and discussions

1. Mark Stosberg shared his remarks concerning the user interface of hunk splitting in darcs 2.4 beta 1, and several improvements were proposed:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022838.html

2. Thanks to our benchmark suite, a performance regression for check and repair was detected, and Reiner Lamers blocked the current release process until this regression is fixed:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022868.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022855.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1677 Petr Rockai

• require hashed-storage 0.4.4.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1677

Patches applied in the last week (9)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #50

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.4 beta 1 was released:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022719.html

2. Eric Kow launched the second fundraising call to prepare the incoming hacking sprint in March ($2000 by 15 feb):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022755.html
   • http://darcs.net/donations.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue121 Ganesh Sittampalam

• add --ask-deps support to amend-record
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue121

issue1720 Dave Love

• Fix cabal haddock problem.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1720

Patches applied in the last week (5)

See darcs wiki entry for details.