On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > As you have noticed I have recently begun to push patches to the darcs > unstable repository. > > I wanted to give you a some background in this change, along with some > sad news. In the recent months, there has been a little bit of tension > in the darcs community between folks that that would like a more agile > and Haskell-oriented approach on the one hand, and folks that would > prefer a more stable approach with a broader outlook on the community. > Adding to this, we also have the fact looming overhead that David > (starting from January) will be buried in his teaching engagements. We > have thought this over quite a bit, and have come to some conclusions > about the best way to move forward. > > This is where the sad news comes in. David Roundy will be stepping down > as unstable maintainer and darcs project leader. I will taking over in > these roles and building a new darcs team (it will certainly take more > than one of us to fill his shoes!).
This is huge news. It is bitter sweet. On the one hand, the Darcs community has always relied on David for his dependability of darcs hacking, brilliance (I describe David to friends as a "hyper-intelligent scientist"), his concern for user needs and his desire to break the VCS mold. On the other hand, this is a time for new hackers to step into roles within the Darcs community as members of Eric's team. I plan to take on more responsibilities within the community, but this news comes with mildly bad timing for me as I'll be disappearing for personal reasons until about mid December. At that point in time I can come back full force. Thank you David! I hope we can live up to your example. Jason _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
