News and discussions

1. Mark Stosberg shared his remarks concerning the user interface of hunk splitting in darcs 2.4 beta 1, and several improvements were proposed:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022838.html

2. 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:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022868.html
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-January/022855.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1677 Petr Rockai

• require hashed-storage 0.4.4.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1677

Patches applied in the last week (9)

2010-01-17 Reinier Lamers

• Fix typo in release script

2010-01-12 Petr Rockai

• We should call “make website” before creating release tarballs.
• Make “make website” work with clean doc/ as well.
• Fix our version mechanism to make non-clean rebuilds pick up right version.

2010-01-15 Eric Kow

• Acknowledge NLTG group within Brighton for Eric’s 20% time.
• Replace University of Brighton logo with crisper version.
• Link to donations page from front page.

2010-01-12 Petr Rockai

• Resolve issue1677: require hashed-storage 0.4.4.

2010-01-06 Reinier Lamers

• Make release.sh handle beta releases correctly