[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #17

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. The second darcs hacking sprint is confirmed: 17-19 April, Utrecht!
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017769.html

2. Discussions are going on about a submission for Google Summer of
   Code 2009. Hashed-storage ? Patch GUI ?
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017766.html

3. darcs 2.2.1 was not released this week. A discussion ensued about the
   minor version releases and whether they should be done anyway:
 * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017736.html

Issues resolved in the last week (1)
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issue1347 Dave Love
 * Check for unsafeMMapFile if mmap use enabled.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1347


Patches applied in the last week (16)
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2009-02-12 Eric Kow
 - Work around weird haddock error.

2009-02-12 Simon Michael
 - haddock typo

2009-02-12 Petr Rockai
 - Cabal: Fix haddock generation.
 - Fix test failure by ratifying the offending readFile.

2009-02-12 Eric Kow
 - Ratify readFile in list_authors

2009-02-12 Petr Rockai
 - Export read_pending from Darcs.Repository.Internal.

2009-02-11 Dave Love
 - Resolve issue1347: Check for unsafeMMapFile if mmap use enabled.

2009-02-10 Eric Kow
 - doc: Fix a typo and some trailing whitespace.

2009-02-07 kari at hoijarvi.org
 - MS Windows specific docs

2009-02-08 Simon Michael
 - document .authorspellings in show authors --help
 - add help to authorspellings file
 - small authorspellings fix
 - add list_authors-style canonicalizing to the show authors command
 - add .authorspellings file appropriate for our repo
 - canonical authors may be defined in an .authorspellings file
 - configuring author spelling variations was complicated, now easier