On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:21 pm, Eric Kow wrote: >> As I mentioned on Reddit, darcs essentially suffers from the day job >> problem. If we could get a Haskeller whose job is to work on darcs, >> at least for a few months, I think we could make a lot of progress. >> (The best candidate would of course have some experience with writing >> fast Haskell, and of course, funding). > > Is this just a symptom of the relatively small Haskell community?
No, the problem is just a lack of interest in hacking on darcs. There are more Haskell programmers today than there were three years ago, and fewer darcs hackers. It used to be that darcs was one of very few haskell projects that a budding programmer could join, but that's no longer true. And most of the easy problems with darcs are already fixed (unlike, e.g. xmonad), so it's not as easy for a Haskell newbie to contribute to darcs as to other programs. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
