Well I think we have two +1s. Anybody else have something to add? To be clear, the proposal from Guillaume is for Darcs 2.8 to offer only read support for old-fashioned repositories.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:10:06 +0100, Guillaume Hoffmann wrote: > 1) we decide to drop OF writing support in 2.8 (and probably > borderline commands like whatsnew, diff), which basically leaves get > and pull. > 2) we update http://wiki.darcs.net/Roadmap so that people see it's > part of a whole set of changes that will make 2.8 über cool. > 3) we prepare a mail to be sent privately to owners of public OF > repositories (typically, in the haskell community) to explain what > comes in darcs 2.8 and later (citing the roadmap page) > 4) prepare a blog post about the 2.8 roadmap, explaining the whys of > OF support change, and telling a release 2.5.1 is prepared. OK since somebody (you) is willing to take on #3 and #4, I'm more positive about shooting for it. > 5) bring on the patches for 1)! May it be from Petr's adventure patch > bundle, or any other source, again this is to be discussed. Someone > (maybe you, Eric, since you propose) should have a hat of "OF removal > supervisor", whose mission ends when the patches are all accepted into > HEAD. I'll do the job (gulp!) if nobody else is willing to. Other comments from the team? If not, let's do it. (If you have no objections, but would like to +1 but are afraid of spamming, I'd say feel free; adds confidence) -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:ko...@jabber.fr (Jabber or Google Talk only)
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