[darcs-users] report from darcs hacking sprint #1

[Jason Dagit]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:27 PM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> Yay!  It looks like good progress for darcs!
>
> Thanks everybody, and thanks to kowey for organizing, cheerleading,
> and writing up the results.
>
> What about kowey's automatic benchmarking and zookeeping scripts --
> weren't those sprint material?  I'm pretty excited about that project
> -- automatic benchmarking and zookeeping.

We had lots of ideas before the sprint, but we found that once we were
at the sprint people had energy to tackle certain problems -- not
always the originally intended tasks.

There has been a lot of progress on the zoo and auto benchmarking
since the sprint though.  Simon and Eric (perhaps others?) have made
good progress on this front:
http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/015312.html
http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-October/015347.html

Thanks for the kind words!
Jason