[darcs-users] growing the darcs team

[Trent W. Buck]

"Eric Y. Kow" <eric.kow at gmail.com> writes:

> 3) Patches will typically flow from unstable into stable.  However, if
>    Eric feels that patch is obvious and not likely to require
>    discussion, he will apply it directly to stable.  For the moment,
>    Eric only considers code comments, documentation and test suite
>    modifications to be obvious.
>
> 4) The stable repository will be tightly kept in synch with unstable
>    repository.  Patches should make it from unstable to stable within
>    the same day unless either David or Eric feel they are not yet
>    ready for stable.

Have you considered automatic, or near-automatic, migration of patches
from unstable to stable?  I'm thinking by analogy of how Debian package
updates automatically migrate from Unstable to Testing based on a number
of conditions (its priority, if it introduces a critical bug, &c).

> 7) Darcs will now be switching to a new time-based release model
>    with new releases coming out every six months.  The first
>    release in this cycle will be in January 2009.  In the meantime,
>    we will work towards getting an intermediary release out to
>    fix bugs in 2.0.2 and to provide some performance improvements
>    through http pipelining.

I presume releases will be made from the stable repository?