darcs weekly news #62

News and discussions

1. Unexpectedly, we got a second student funded by the Google Summer of Code this year. Adolfo Builes will work on improving the global cache:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024019.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/05/improving-darcs-performance-my-gsoc.html

2. Darcs 2.4.4 is going to be released in one week if no bug is discovered in its current source (most importantly under Windows):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024030.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024032.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024037.html

3. We are looking for a new release manager:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024038.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1841 Jeremy Cowgar

• Apply binary mode to ssh process and patch file handles.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1841

Patches applied in the last week (22)

See darcs wiki entry for details.