On 10/05/10 07:31, Eric Kow wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 00:09:41 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
Cool, thanks. Now I'm narrowing my focus for a 5000 word paper --
I'm thinking of writing about a specific "issue" or "patch" that
involved some tension between the different Darcs team members
before the issue was resolved (or perhaps, an unresolved one).
Some tricky patches maybe:
- attempt to finish witnesses (2008)
(and then continuing incremental progress on spreading witnesses
throughout the code... that was interesting...)
- big ByteString stuff after the 2008-10 sprint
- merging in google summer of code (2009)
http://wiki.darcs.net/Review/DarcsHS
- adventure branch discussion
To write about, I think I'm settling on a combination of the process of
getting 2.5 out the door, and the decision to drop old-fashioned support
(with http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1942 being a technical-focus-point,
hopefully serving as an example of why it's been difficult to keep
supporting old-fashioned, and clearly serving as a part of the painful
decisions involved in releasing 2.5). But we'll see how my writing goes!
I'd happily participate and help Darcs, such as volunteering to be
Issue Manager. I'm concerned though, how much time do you think it
would take to do a good job at this? -- I'm a quite busy student
this semester, although starting in January I might have some more
time.
I can't give you a good estimate of how much time this takes, but one
way you could dip your toes in before committing to a management job is
to just take on the triage and customer service roles with me advising:
http://wiki.darcs.net/BugTracker
I think that's a very small (but daily!) time commitment.
Good idea. I've thought again though, and noticed I'm already
exhausting myself this semester - my college is really intense - I
really shouldn't even try to volunteer for more stuff. But I'm hoping
to take Spring semester away from college, so unless I end up busied
with a full-time job, I may have a reasonable chance to help out.
(And I'll have access to Boston / New York City. Are any of
you in those areas?)
Will be in Florida end of October, beginning of November so I'll
at least be in the same time zone
Not close enough for me currently :). Is there anyhow a map of
timezones or anywhere that some Darcs-developers have described where
they are? I've a sense that quite a few are in Europe but I'm not quite
sure what that sense is from (maybe that the hacking-sprints often being
European). Though, it doesn't matter terribly in the grand scheme of
things.
I hope no one minds what I'm saying I want to write; depending on
the list's opinion I'll share my writing with you, or keep it
private, as you wish. (I think sharing seems to be the operative
culture here...)
I'd personally be interested in seeing what you write. As for sharing,
the general principle is to avoid the temptation/convenience of private
discussions, but you could override that with a feeling that discretion
is better.
Sure. I don't imagine I'll be writing anything controversial. I think
as for incremental progress, I might post to my tech blog (which needs
more love), http://melioria.wordpress.com/ , so that I don't spam the
uninterested people on the list; when I'm nearer to done I'll send
another e-mail.
-Isaac
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