darcs weekly news #55

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.4 rc2 was released, try it now:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023078.html

2. Benchmarks are starting to come to the wiki:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023073.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Benchmarks

3. Finally, the fundraising drive was a success, a big thank-you to all donators!

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023067.html
   • http://www.darcs.net/thanks.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1741 Eric Kow

• fix --list-options when option has multiple names.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1741

Patches applied in the last week (6)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #54

News and discussions

1. Petr updated the hashed-storage library, fixing a performance regression in the upcoming darcs 2.4, and gave us new timing scores of different versions of darcs:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023019.html

2. Eric sketched out a roadmap for darcs 2.5, which influenced our plans for the upcoming hacking sprint:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/022997.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Roadmap
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03

3. The darcs team is looking for students who want to apply for a Google Summer of Code 2010:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023020.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1250 Florent Becker

• check for newlines in setpref values
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1250

issue1719 Florent Becker

• 1719
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1719

Patches applied in the last week (14)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #53

News and discussions

1. Beta 3 was released: ``When no important bugs are discovered in the coming week, darcs 2.4 will be released around Sunday, February 7.''

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022969.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022992.html

2. The new hunk editing feature (with an improved user interface in beta 3) spawned other discussions:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022981.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022983.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (0)

See darcs wiki entry for details.