Benedikt Schmidt talked about his progress in implementing a filecache to enhance speed of annotate:
Radoslav Dorcik resubmitted work-in-progress patches implementing trackdown --bisect, and asked for comments:
Darcs 2.4 was released! Reinier wrote a comprehensive announcement at:
Petr explained the difference of performance between darcs 2.3.1 and 2.4 on optimised pristine repositories:
Max Battcher released musdex, a tool enabling darcs to version compressed files formats such as docx or odt:
Darcs 2.4 rc2 was released, try it now:
Benchmarks are starting to come to the wiki:
Finally, the fundraising drive was a success, a big thank-you to all donators!
Petr updated the hashed-storage library, fixing a performance regression in the upcoming darcs 2.4, and gave us new timing scores of different versions of darcs:
Eric sketched out a roadmap for darcs 2.5, which influenced our plans for the upcoming hacking sprint:
The darcs team is looking for students who want to apply for a Google Summer of Code 2010:
Beta 3 was released: ``When no important bugs are discovered in the coming week, darcs 2.4 will be released around Sunday, February 7.''
The new hunk editing feature (with an improved user interface in beta 3) spawned other discussions:
darcs 2.4 beta 2 was released, including the fix for performance regression with check and repair:
Fundraising update: $782 were given, still $1218 to go!
Mark Stosberg shared his remarks concerning the user interface of hunk splitting in darcs 2.4 beta 1, and several improvements were proposed:
Thanks to our benchmark suite, a performance regression for check and repair was detected, and Reiner Lamers blocked the current release process until this regression is fixed:
