On Jul 30, 2008, at 15:39 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > a) darcs is lacking clear project direction and energy, which is > slowing down our project, and slowing dev uptake.
I am reminded of the lesson from The Cathedral and the Bazaar: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ ar01s02.html 5. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. It seems to me that David Roundy has lost interest in improving darcs and is interested only in maintaining it. This is demonstrated most clearly by his lackluster release announcements for darcs 2.0 and 2.0.2. One of the duties of a project leader is, basically, to be excited about the project and to communicate that excitement to others in the release announcements. I don't think David is into that anymore. He deserves, of course, all of our thanks for what he has already accomplished. I hope someone else will offer to take over leadership of darcs and that David will encourage such people to grow into that role and that he'll hand over the keys of commit access to them. At the very least, let us nominate someone else to write the next release announcement. ;-) Other than the lack of enthusiasm in the leadership role, I don't think darcs is in such bad shape, from an open-source-project perspective. There are some talented people who have fun hacking on it, and it works fine for small projects. I am interested in the technical question of why darcs-2-format repositories perform worse than darcs-1-format repositories on the ghc code base. Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
