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)

See darcs wiki entry for details.