darcs weekly news #66

News and discussions

1. Reinier announced the release schedule of Darcs 2.5 (soft freeze July 8th, release August 7th):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024284.html

2. Reiner also issued a call for volunteers for fixing unassigned bugs that should be fixed for the next release:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024407.html

3. Eric explained how to make the patch reviewing process more efficient:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024370.html

4. And the Sumer of Code blog posts of the last two weeks:

   • http://darcs-gsoc2010.blogspot.com/2010/06/gsoc-2010-progress-report-1.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/gsoc-report-week-4.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/gsoc-report-week-5.html

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue1176 Adolfo Builes

• 1176: caches interfere with --remote-repo flag
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1176

issue1277 Eric Kow

• percolate repository format errors correctly.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1277

issue1389 Reinier Lamers

• Change predist pref to point people to use 'cabal sdist'
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1389

issue1713 Eric Kow

• shorter interactive prompts.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1713

issue1857 Petr Rockai

• Use and update pristine root pointer upon conversion.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1857

issue1877 Florent Becker

• make pull --dry-run --xml terse
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1877

issue1879 Eric Kow

• notice unexpected commute failure on merge.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1879

Patches applied in the last week (53)

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darcs weekly news #65

News and discussions

1. Lele Gaifax released a new version of the trac+darcs plugin:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024281.html
   • http://progetti.arstecnica.it/trac+darcs/

2. We are still looking for a release manager for the release of darcs 2.5. Eric summarized the discussions concerning recruitment and the responsibilities and challenges related to this job:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024268.html

3. Roadmap: rebase won't be in 2.5, annotate will be improved:

   • http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2010-06-08#i_2415755
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024227.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1210 Adolfo Builes

• global cache gets recorded in _darcs/prefs/sources
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1210

issue1874 Eric Kow

• recognise network tests on cabal test command line.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1874

Patches applied in the last week (21)

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darcs weekly news #64

News and discussions

1. An alpha release of darcs 2.5 might happen soon:

   • http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2010-06-06#i_2408520

2. Summer of Code: Alexey Levan sent a first version of patches for darcs optimize --http, and Adolfo Builes sent a patch fixing a bug concerning cache pool choice by darcs:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024159.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024132.html

Issues resolved in the last week (10)

issue1337 Petr Rockai

• mark the test as passing. Likely addressed by noslurps.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1337

issue1503 Adolfo Builes

• prefer local caches to remote ones
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1503

issue1610 Petr Rockai

• mark the test as passing. Likely fixed by NewSet.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1610

issue1817 Petr Rockai

• --external-merge broken, by bumping h-s dependency to 0.5.1.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1817

issue1839 Florent Becker

• k broken in interactive selection
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1839

issue1843 Florent Becker

• interactive 'v' prints double entries
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1843

issue1848 Florent Becker

• Patch.Choices.makeEverythingSooner is incorrect
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1848

issue1860 Petr Rockai

• (Un)applying move patches may lead to incomplete pristine.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1860

issue1861 Eric Kow

• Fix typo in --no-boring help.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1861

issue1864 Florent Becker

• w should only skip one patch
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1864

Patches applied in the last week (18)

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