darcs weekly news #87

News and discussions

1. Darcs received funding for two Google Summer of Code students, Owen Stephens and Petr Rockai:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-April/026103.html
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201104/gsoc-project-accepted
   • http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/mornfall/1
2. Andrew Pennebaker built and put online Windows installers for Darcs 2.5.2:
   
   • http://www.yellosoft.us/helpers
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-April/026113.html
3. We are looking for a new issue manager:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-May/026130.html
4. And here is the report of last month's darcs sprint (Paris) in case you missed it:
   
   • http://blog.darcs.net/2011/04/darcs-hacking-sprint-6-report.html

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue1640 Radoslav Dorcik

• darcs apply --verbose without args mentions stdin.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1640

issue1661 Scott Lawrence

• make add --quiet quieter
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1661

issue1665 Chris Trompette

• wrong default suggestions for Windows
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1665

issue1804 Eric Kow

• friendlier message when adding missing files.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1804

issue2052 Owen Stephens

• Implicitly use unified diff, unless told not to.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2052

Patches applied in the last week (27)

See darcs wiki entry for details.