News and discussions

1. Owen Stephens summarized his work on the darcs-bridge summer of code and did some followup work on it:

   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201109/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-results
   • http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201111/darcs-bridge-bug-tracker-and-updates

2. Eric Kow introduced an ‘announce’ topic filter on the mailing list to provide a low-traffic announcement subset of the list:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-November/026321.html

3. Mark Stosberg announced a donation of $500 on behalf of Summersault. Remember you too can donate by going on the donations page of darcs.net:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-December/026335.html
   • http://www.darcs.net/donations.html

4. Interested by participating in the next Darcs sprint in March? Add yourself to the wiki page:

   • http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03

Issues resolved in the last week (1)

issue1705 Eric Kow

• show contents –index fixed by Owen.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1705

Patches applied in the last week (27)

2011-06-15 Florent Becker

• Add a ‘o’ command to interactive selection for going to the first patch

2011-12-28 Owen Stephens

• Use Data.List prefix functions for checking urls/targets in Send.
• Extract function to generate email “to” string in Send, removing some duplicated code.
• Remove Hlint and compiler warnings from Send.

2011-12-01 Gabriel Kerneis

• Fix missing langinfo.h on Windows

2011-11-30 Ganesh Sittampalam

• update text dep to make sure we have decodeUtf8’

2011-11-29 Gabriel Kerneis

• Fix test suite for new makeEmail signature
• Guess ascii and utf-8 charsets
• Add a –charset flag for darcs send
• Add ByteStringUtils.isAscii
• Utility functions to check locale encoding

2011-12-29 Ganesh Sittampalam

• test that send reports UTF-8 encoding when needed

2011-12-29 Eric Kow

• Resolve issue1705: show contents –index fixed by Owen.
• Accept issue1705: test show contents –index=1

2011-07-01 Florent Becker

• More appropriate explanation for hunk-editing in revert

2011-07-27 Owen Stephens

• Remove duplicated pending reading code in readRecordedAndPending

2011-09-03 Eric Kow

• Add forgotten URL.Curl module.
• Slight readability tweak on URL.addReq
• Redundant liftIO.
• Break up urlThread into top-level functions.
• Reorganise URL fetching code.

2011-07-11 Owen Stephens

• Re-enable machine-readable annotate output.

2011-08-14 Petr Rockai

• Resolve conflict with Owen in Darcs.Match.

2011-06-29 Owen Stephens

• Fix error with unhandled –index in show contents

2011-12-24 Mark Wright

• relax HTTP dependency

2011-09-06 Eric Kow

• Give immediate useful advice when repository upgrade required.

2011-08-01 Owen Stephens

• Add addToSpecificInventory function, for use in darcs-fastconvert