I'm cc'ing darcs-devel on this, so Tommy and Juliusz will see it...

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:46:55PM -0800, Daan Leijen wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Yesterday I send two patches (against darcs-unstable) to you. I was
> wondering how I can see that they are received, or applied? Is this the
> way development should work, or should I first have asked permission to
> send patches?

That was completely correct.  The patches went to the darcs-devel mailing
list, where they'll be reviewed by the darcs maintainers, Juliusz and Tommy
(currently not me), who will decide whether to apply them.  I'm not sure if
you're subscribed to darcs-devel, but that'll help.

> Furthermore, both patches are very important for me (in order to use
> Darcs at work in a windows environment). I was wondering how I could get
> them included in a Darcs stable release, and when these releases take
> place?

Tommy manages the darcs-stable branch, which means he's in charge of making
stable releases.  I believe he's working up towards one right now.
Normally we want patches to first go into the darcs-unstable branch before
migrating (after testing) to darcs-stable.  But your patches seem isolated
enough to me that we could perhaps fast-track them.

When you've got patches that are important to you, sending an explanation
of why they should go in quickly to the darcs-devel list can expedite the
process.  Sometimes the maintainer (or myself) won't be able to see why a
particular change is important (although your patch is pretty clear).

Another thing that helps is if other developers speak up and say they'd
like to see the patches go in.  It's easy as maintainers to get snowed in
with all the email and patches and let one fall through the cracks.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net

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