On 2008 Aug 3, at 1:17, Trent W. Buck wrote: > "Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The darcs 2.0 announcement read like an obituary > > I don't know why, but a lot of people I spoke to seemed to have that > impression, and I essentially had to wave changelogs under their > face to
That would be this part in particular: > Unfortunately, it is also a rather labor-intensive process, and due > to a lack of contributors, we've moving to a more streamlined > process. Starting with the darcs 2.0.0 release, there will be just > one central branch of darcs and only one maintainer: for now this is > me, David Roundy. Moreover, I will be attempting to act as a much > lower-profile maintainer than we've had previously. I will not be > reading bug reports, reading the darcs-users email list or even the > darcs-devel mailing list. I will only be reviewing patches that are > contributed. Which is pretty much saying "darcs 2 has moved to maintenance mode". And this: > Darcs 2.0.0 contains some performance regressions when running with > large repositories. It is possible that these regressions will be > sufficient to prevent its effective use in some projects. If this > describes your project--and the only way to know is to try it--then > I recommend considering either switching to a different revision > control system, or helping us to improve darcs. The former is > certainly the easier path. didn't help. All in all, it sounded an awful lot like "here's our final release, find new maintainers if you want it to continue" --- followed by an ominous silence from the darcs camp. (Hm, I feel a blog rant coming on.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
