<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Jason Dagit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dagit@codersbase.com">dagit@codersbase.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Dave Love <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugs@darcs.net" target="_blank">bugs@darcs.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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New submission from Dave Love <<a href="mailto:fx@gnu.org" target="_blank">fx@gnu.org</a>>:<br>
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Wed Dec 9 23:22:06 GMT 2009 Dave Love <<a href="mailto:fx@gnu.org" target="_blank">fx@gnu.org</a>><br>
* Contribute vc-darcs.el for Emacs VC support.<br>
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The Emacs maintainers rejected the Darcs support (despite supporting<br>
the other major free VCSs) :-(. </blockquote></div><div><br>Do you know why?<br> <br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Distributing it with Darcs makes it<br>
reasonable to drop support for old Darcs versions later and possibly<br>
take advantage of additional features to support it, but means we have<br>
to track incompatible changes in Emacs.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I don't think it makes sense to have this in the repository at <a href="http://darcs.net" target="_blank">http://darcs.net</a>. What about putting it into a different repository? Maybe the wiki would be appropriate? The problem is that, as I recall, we're removing everything from the darcs repo that we can. The goal is to boil it down to the core bits that make up darcs.<br>
<br>I'm going to mark this as rejected, but that's really an invitation to send it again against a different repository. Perhaps we could get someone to volunteer to maintain a darcs-contribs repo full of community contributions like this.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Dave,<br><br>Eric contacted me off-list and pointed me here:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Also: you may want to note our policy on contribs<br>
<a href="http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy" target="_blank">http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy</a><br>
which may not affect this decision<br></blockquote><br> Where it says:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div id="contribs">
<h1><a href="http://wiki.darcs.net/Development/Policy#TOC">Contribs</a></h1><p>We
welcome small third-party tools (eg. shell completion scripts) in our
contribs/ directory. Our only requirement is that they be maintained.
Bugs related to a contrib script can be tracked on <a href="http://bugs.darcs.net/">http://bugs.darcs.net</a>
if there is not already a tracker for them. Note that if we do receive
bug reports and do not hear back from the maintainer within a week, we
will have to remove the script outright. Re-submissions are of course
welcome when a maintainer is available.</p></div></blockquote>I apologize for not checking the wiki first.<br><br>Would you be willing to step up as the maintainer of this code? According to the above policy, that is what we need.<br>
<br>Sorry for the confusion.<br><br>Jason<br></div></div><br>