darcs weekly news #94

News and discussions

1. The Southampton sprint is over! We'll put together a blog report soon.
2. Florent and Ganesh prepared a release candidate of Darcs 2.8, try it!
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-April/026445.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-April/026448.html
3. What would be the next big feature of Darcs 2.10? Ganesh proposed rebase, and Michael already provided feedback about this feature:
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-April/026443.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-April/026455.html
4. Eric asked what would be a nice mission statement for Darcs. A few propositions have been made so far:
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-March/026433.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue2125 Owen Stephens

• only warn about forcing replaces, when a force is required.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2125

issue2136 Owen Stephens

• Correctly track renames of multiple files in Changes --xml.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2136

issue2162 Owen Stephens

• Fix compilation failure with GHC 6.12
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2162

Patches applied in the last week (199)

See darcs wiki entry for details.