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)

2010-02-14 Eric Kow

• Point out upcoming Darcs 2.4 release on homepage news.

2010-02-08 Florent Becker

• Add witnesses to Commands.Changes
• Allow PatchSets not to start at the origin of the repo
• Remove useless case in Patch.Bundle
• add seals in Changes to prepare for witnesses
• Give Darcs.SelectChanges.text_view a sane type
• Rename filterFL to filterFLFL, replace it with a version using Sealed2

2010-02-09 Eric Kow

• Camel case Darcs.RunCommand.
• Simplify sourcing of lib in EXAMPLE.sh.

2010-01-05 Florent Becker

• resolve issue 1719
• Warn for extra patches before selection in apply

2010-02-03 Petr Rockai

• In check, compare index path list against working, not pristine.

2010-02-03 Eric Kow

• Remove default $20 donation as this confuses people.

2010-01-05 Florent Becker

• resolve issue1250: check for newlines in setpref values