Let me add my voice to the big "Thank you!" to David, for inventing the whole idea of darcs, creating a valuable tool, and organizing and managing other contributors for all these years. In fact, I suggest that darcs users should send a note or small gift to David for Christmas.
I'm glad to see Eric Kow in the darcs maintainership role -- he has done a stellar job so far of organizing darcs hackers. If I may issue a general request: darcs-2 isn't all here yet. It isn't yet a no-brainer for people to upgrade to darcs-2 from darcs-1. The main reasons you might want to refrain from upgrading to darcs-2 are: 1. Windows packaging - see this thread: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/015065.html It isn't clear which Windows binary people should use. I recommend the old darcs-2.0.0 binary that I packaged, just because I know that it has worked well enough for some people. 2. Buildbot is not green: http://buildbot.darcs.net/waterfall Some people think of buildbot as being "just for developers" and not for users, but as speaking a user of a project, if it has a red buildbot (or no buildbot) then this is a warning flag that I should tread carefully and not upgrade unless I have to. Likewise, if people ask me if they should upgrade their darcs (and people do ask me that), then I currently say "Hm, well, it depends...". If the buildbot was green I would be a lot more encouraging of upgrading. 3. Current darcs trunk creates darcs-2-format repositories by default. This can lead to compatibility problems with people who are still using darcs-1. That is why, for example, Yitzchak Gale in the thread references above will not upgrade to the latest version of darcs. Ideas: 1. Temporarily revert the behavior of creating darcs-2-format repositories by default, until after the next stable release. 2. Make the buildbot green. Once the buildbot turns green, then it will automatically upload the Windows binary of darcs which passed all unit tests to https://zooko.com/darcsbuildbot/uploads/ zooko_allmydata_virtual2 , so that is the first element of: 3. Automate the production of complete binary packages for many platforms. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
