So, I've been thinking... I'm a student who goes to a college where
everyone writes a thesis. And in addition to being a computer
programmer, I've studied social sciences quite a bit.
I'm interested how conscious we (Darcs) have been about community
processes -- Darcs in the last few years, and even Haskell in general
e.g. libraries@ process and Haskell Platform. In Darcs, often Eric Kow
often initiates I think, but it would never work without the entire dev
community being sufficiently interested. These community processes also
include the way we use tools in order to collaborate (the bug-tracker,
the type-witnesses, etc....and obviously, the version-control system!).
So I was thinking of writing a history of Darcs from a semi social
perspective (perhaps semi technical perspective too).
Have we written anything like this about Darcs before? (For sure, there
is the Darcs-wiki and other nice places where we've written things --
and the mailing-list archive is a treasure trove ... If anything
particular comes to mind, reply and point it out?) Is this sort of
academic paper something that people would be excited about? Can you
think any way that this would actually be useful to the Darcs project or
people, beyond just being amusing?
...Those sorts of questions: I'd like your thoughts!
-Isaac
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