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)

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darcs weekly news #65

News and discussions

1. Lele Gaifax released a new version of the trac+darcs plugin:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024281.html
   • http://progetti.arstecnica.it/trac+darcs/

2. We are still looking for a release manager for the release of darcs 2.5. Eric summarized the discussions concerning recruitment and the responsibilities and challenges related to this job:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024268.html

3. Roadmap: rebase won't be in 2.5, annotate will be improved:

   • http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2010-06-08#i_2415755
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024227.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1210 Adolfo Builes

• global cache gets recorded in _darcs/prefs/sources
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1210

issue1874 Eric Kow

• recognise network tests on cabal test command line.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1874

Patches applied in the last week (21)

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darcs weekly news #64

News and discussions

1. An alpha release of darcs 2.5 might happen soon:

   • http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2010-06-06#i_2408520

2. Summer of Code: Alexey Levan sent a first version of patches for darcs optimize --http, and Adolfo Builes sent a patch fixing a bug concerning cache pool choice by darcs:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024159.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-June/024132.html

Issues resolved in the last week (10)

issue1337 Petr Rockai

• mark the test as passing. Likely addressed by noslurps.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1337

issue1503 Adolfo Builes

• prefer local caches to remote ones
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1503

issue1610 Petr Rockai

• mark the test as passing. Likely fixed by NewSet.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1610

issue1817 Petr Rockai

• --external-merge broken, by bumping h-s dependency to 0.5.1.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1817

issue1839 Florent Becker

• k broken in interactive selection
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1839

issue1843 Florent Becker

• interactive 'v' prints double entries
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1843

issue1848 Florent Becker

• Patch.Choices.makeEverythingSooner is incorrect
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1848

issue1860 Petr Rockai

• (Un)applying move patches may lead to incomplete pristine.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1860

issue1861 Eric Kow

• Fix typo in --no-boring help.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1861

issue1864 Florent Becker

• w should only skip one patch
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1864

Patches applied in the last week (18)

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darcs weekly news #63

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.4.4 was released this week:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024057.html

2. Eric talked about the ongoing work in fixing the bug about non-ASCII filenames:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024103.html

3. Adolfo wrote his first Google Summer of Code blog report:

   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/05/gsoc-week-1-getting-to-know-you.html

Issues resolved in the last week (2)

issue1763 Petr Rockai

• use correct filename encoding in conflictors.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1763

issue1784 Guillaume Hoffmann

• push and pull print remote address right away
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1784

Patches applied in the last week (14)

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darcs weekly news #62

News and discussions

1. Unexpectedly, we got a second student funded by the Google Summer of Code this year. Adolfo Builes will work on improving the global cache:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024019.html
   • http://abuiles.blogspot.com/2010/05/improving-darcs-performance-my-gsoc.html

2. Darcs 2.4.4 is going to be released in one week if no bug is discovered in its current source (most importantly under Windows):

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024030.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024032.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024037.html

3. We are looking for a new release manager:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/024038.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1841 Jeremy Cowgar

• Apply binary mode to ssh process and patch file handles.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1841

Patches applied in the last week (22)

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darcs weekly news #61

News and discussions

1. Eric announced the release of darcs 2.4.3, which fixes critical bugs under Windows and fixes the performance regression of darcs convert:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023972.html
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.4
   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries

2. Simon Michael proposed a cleanup of the repository format names and gathered a few answers and proposals:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023936.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-May/023969.html

3. Ganesh and Petr explained why it is not recommended anymore to build darcs with GHC 6.8:

• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023774.html
• http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023776.html
• http://wiki.darcs.net/Debian

Issues resolved in the last week (7)

issue64 Reinier Lamers

• store metadata as UTF-8, autodetect UTF-8, and don't normalize to NFC
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64

issue1232 Dino Morelli

• darcs convert forgets _darcs/prefs/prefs
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1232

issue1760 Petr Rockai

• Fix working directory handling in Commands.Convert.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1760

issue1769 Matthias Kilian

• add support for --match 'comment ...'
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1769

issue1814 Petr Rockai

• Include contrib/darcs-errors.hlint in release tarball.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1814

issue1824 Eric Kow

• avoid PACKAGE_VERSION under Windows.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1824

issue1837 Petr Rockai

• Add readWorking and use it in pristineFromWorking.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1837

Patches applied in the last week (115)

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darcs weekly news #60

News and discussions

1. darcs 2.4.1 was released, fixing a couple of bugs of version 2.4.0. However, a serious bug under Windows was discovered, so Windows users should still stick to the 2.3.1 version, while 2.4.2 is not out:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023647.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023736.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023769.html

2. Three students wrote their applications for this year's Summer of Code. Projects members discussed the priorities of darcs: network speed, local speed or UI ?

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023628.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023631.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-April/023673.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1159 Dmitry Kurochkin

• smart caches union.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1159

issue1645 Eric Kow

• bump hashed-storage to 0.4.11; don't follow symlinks.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1645

issue1756 Reinier Lamers

• bump hashed-storage dependency to 0.4.10
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1756

Patches applied in the last week (29)

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