[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #89

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

Or more like Darcs Yearly News ? :-)

News and discussions
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1. Owen Stephens summarized his work on the darcs-bridge summer of code
   and did some followup work on it:

   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201109/gsoc-darcs-bridge-%E2%80%93-results
   * http://blog.owenstephens.co.uk/201111/darcs-bridge-bug-tracker-and-updates

2. Eric Kow introduced an 'announce' topic filter on the mailing list
   to provide a low-traffic announcement subset of the list:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-November/026321.html

3. Mark Stosberg announced a donation of $500 on behalf of Summersault.
   Remember you too can donate by going on the donations page of darcs.net:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2011-December/026335.html
   * http://www.darcs.net/donations.html

4. Interested by participating in the next Darcs sprint in March?
   Add yourself to the wiki page:

   * http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2012-03


Issues resolved in the last week (1)
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issue1705 Eric Kow
 * show contents --index fixed by Owen.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1705


Patches applied in the last week (27)
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2011-06-15 Florent Becker
 - Add a 'o' command to interactive selection for going to the first patch

2011-12-28 Owen Stephens
 - Use Data.List prefix functions for checking urls/targets in Send.
 - Extract function to generate email "to" string in Send, removing
some duplicated code.
 - Remove Hlint and compiler warnings from Send.

2011-12-01 Gabriel Kerneis
 - Fix missing langinfo.h on Windows

2011-11-30 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - update text dep to make sure we have decodeUtf8'

2011-11-29 Gabriel Kerneis
 - Fix test suite for new makeEmail signature
 - Guess ascii and utf-8 charsets
 - Add a --charset flag for darcs send
 - Add ByteStringUtils.isAscii
 - Utility functions to check locale encoding

2011-12-29 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - test that send reports UTF-8 encoding when needed

2011-12-29 Eric Kow
 - Resolve issue1705: show contents --index fixed by Owen.
 - Accept issue1705: test show contents --index=1

2011-07-01 Florent Becker
 - More appropriate explanation for hunk-editing in revert

2011-07-27 Owen Stephens
 - Remove duplicated pending reading code in readRecordedAndPending

2011-09-03 Eric Kow
 - Add forgotten URL.Curl module.
 - Slight readability tweak on URL.addReq
 - Redundant liftIO.
 - Break up urlThread into top-level functions.
 - Reorganise URL fetching code.

2011-07-11 Owen Stephens
 - Re-enable machine-readable annotate output.

2011-08-14 Petr Rockai
 - Resolve conflict with Owen in Darcs.Match.

2011-06-29 Owen Stephens
 - Fix error with unhandled --index in show contents

2011-12-24 Mark Wright
 - relax HTTP dependency

2011-09-06 Eric Kow
 - Give immediate useful advice when repository upgrade required.

2011-08-01 Owen Stephens
 - Add addToSpecificInventory function, for use in darcs-fastconvert