[darcs-devel] GHC's darcs evaluation wiki page

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 09:24:50PM -0600, zooko wrote:
> "Uncertain future: no critical mass of hackers/maintainers. The  
> technical basis is not well enough understood by enough people."
> 
> This is, of course, a prognostication or value judgment, but I  
> disagree with it.  It was more true before the recent renewed  
> interest in hacking on darcs-2.

I'm afraid I'd have to agree that this is a problem.  We definitely *don't*
have a critical mass of hackers/maintainers, and there are too few people
who understand how darcs works well enough to modify it.  My estimate is
that by this time next year, darcs will be effectively unmaintained.  Of
course, it's possible that I'm only pessimistic because I've been spending
too much time working on darcs, but that alone ought to tell you
something.

I've been considering recently whether I ought to recommend that the ghc
folks switch to a different revision control system.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University