First draft of our 2010-05 HCAR report. Note that you can edit this directly if you want:
darcs get --lazy http://wiki.darcs.net cd hcar Basically, I've been leaving the first and last paragraph intact and modifying the middle section which reports on progress in the last 6 months. Thanks, ------------------------------------------ \begin{hcarentry}[updated]{Darcs} \label{darcs} \report{Eric Kow}%05/10 \participants{} \status{active development} \makeheader Darcs is a distributed revision control system written in Haskell. In Darcs, every copy of your source code is a full repository, which allows for full operation in a disconnected environment, and also allows anyone with read access to a Darcs repository to easily create their own branch and modify it with the full power of Darcs' revision control. Darcs is based on an underlying theory of patches, which allows for safe reordering and merging of patches even in complex scenarios. For all its power, Darcs remains a very easy to use tool for every day use because it follows the principle of keeping simple things simple. Our most recent major release, Darcs 2.4, was in January 2010. It provides faster repository-local operations, a new interactive hunk editing feature among other bug fixes and features. For our next release, we hope to continue the trend of improving Darcs performance: \begin{enumerate} \item Better support for long histories: Petr Rockai has begun work (originally started by David Roundy) to make Darcs handle long histories in hashed repositories. If you tag your repositories regularly, operations that add or remove patches to Darcs should take O(1) time instead of O(N) with respect to the number of the patches in your history. \item Faster Darcs annotate: Benedikt Schmidt has nearly completed his work on a new ``patch index'' feature which we hope to make darcs annotate considerably faster. He also plans to overhaul the user interface to provide more human-readable output. \end{enumerate} These changes and more will appear in the upcoming Darcs 2.5 release, scheduled for July 2010. Also, we are excited to report that a Darcs project has been accepted for the 2010 Google Summer of Code. Alexey Levan will be working to improve Darcs performance over networks. Meanwhile, we still have a lot progress to make and are always open to contributions. Haskell hackers, we need your help! Darcs is free software licensed under the GNU GPL. Darcs is a proud member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a US tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. We accept donations at \url{http://darcs.net/donations.html}. \FurtherReading \url{http://darcs.net} \end{hcarentry} -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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