darcs weekly news #58

News and discussions

1. The fourth Darcs hacking sprint has just ended! A dozen of Darcs developers were present at Zurich for three days. Before a full-length report is posted, you can consult the wiki for a rough outline of the work done:

   • http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2010/03/darcs-team-at-zurihac.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03

2. GHC version support was discussed in depth, and it was decided that Darcs would only be guaranteed to compile with the last two stable branches of GHC:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023269.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023323.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy

Issues resolved in the last week (5)

issue643 Guillaume Hoffmann

• darcs send -o outputs remote repo email address
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue643

issue1456 Guillaume Hoffmann

• by using Tar and GZip haskell modules for dist
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1456

issue1473 mail@stefanwehr.de

• annotate command accepts "." and treats "" as invalid input
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1473

issue1750 Eric Kow

• uncover help text for darcs show pristine.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1750

issue1767 Ganesh Sittampalam

• send CRC warnings to stderr
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1767

Patches applied in the last week (25)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #57

News and discussions

1. Benedikt Schmidt talked about his progress in implementing a filecache to enhance speed of annotate:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023191.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023190.html

2. Radoslav Dorcik resubmitted work-in-progress patches implementing trackdown --bisect, and asked for comments:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023187.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1753 Eric Kow

• restrict mmap to version used by hashed-storage.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1753

Patches applied in the last week (38)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #56

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.4 was released! Reinier wrote a comprehensive announcement at:

   • http://darcs.net/announce.html

2. Petr explained the difference of performance between darcs 2.3.1 and 2.4 on optimised pristine repositories:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023155.html

3. Max Battcher released musdex, a tool enabling darcs to version compressed files formats such as docx or odt:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023171.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1731 Reinier Lamers

• bump the hashed-storage dependency once more
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1731

issue1749 Reinier Lamers

• refuse to remove nonempty directories in makeRemovePatch
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1749

issue1755 Eric Kow

• fix apparent hard line break in homepage.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1755

Patches applied in the last week (27)

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darcs weekly news #55

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.4 rc2 was released, try it now:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023078.html

2. Benchmarks are starting to come to the wiki:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023073.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Benchmarks

3. Finally, the fundraising drive was a success, a big thank-you to all donators!

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023067.html
   • http://www.darcs.net/thanks.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1741 Eric Kow

• fix --list-options when option has multiple names.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1741

Patches applied in the last week (6)

See darcs wiki entry for details.

darcs weekly news #54

News and discussions

1. 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:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023019.html

2. Eric sketched out a roadmap for darcs 2.5, which influenced our plans for the upcoming hacking sprint:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/022997.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Roadmap
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03

3. The darcs team is looking for students who want to apply for a Google Summer of Code 2010:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023020.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1250 Florent Becker

• check for newlines in setpref values
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1250

issue1719 Florent Becker

• 1719
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1719

Patches applied in the last week (14)

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darcs weekly news #53

News and discussions

1. Beta 3 was released: ``When no important bugs are discovered in the coming week, darcs 2.4 will be released around Sunday, February 7.''

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022969.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022992.html

2. The new hunk editing feature (with an improved user interface in beta 3) spawned other discussions:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022981.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022983.html

Issues resolved in the last week (0)

Patches applied in the last week (0)

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darcs weekly news #52

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.4 beta 2 was released, including the fix for performance regression with check and repair:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022917.html

2. Fundraising update: $782 were given, still $1218 to go!

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022915.html
   • http://darcs.net/donations.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1731 Reinier Lamers

• bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.5
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1731

Patches applied in the last week (15)

See darcs wiki entry for details.