Hi Eric, thank you very much for the great work you've done! We hope that you'll stick around!
Cheers, David 2015-10-08 16:58 GMT+02:00 Eric Kow <ko...@darcs.net>: > Hello Darcs users! > > So last month I had a chance to reunite with the active members of the > Darcs team (Ganesh and Guillaume) at the Paris hacking sprint. It was > a very nice time and I hope to see everyone again soon. During the > sprint (in between hack sessions), we also spent some time thinking > about the general future of Darcs, what sorts of directions we could > go in and how we can go about getting there. For example, what if we > thought a little outside the version control box? Could Darcs find a > niche for for making patch reordering work for other version control > systems? Possibly. It's worth exploring. > > It's a different world out there now (but ever changing) than seven > years ago. In particular I think we have done an absolutely *splendid* > job adhering to the old Haskell slogan “avoid success at all costs!” > ;-). On the one hand the smaller community makes it harder to find > help and get effort directed at things. On the other hand, it's also a > blessing of sorts. With a little less juggling on our hands, we can > now direct more attention to the core work of getting Darcs right > (that's why we're pretty excited to see Pijul; this sort of work is > very helpful to us). > > We still love Darcs; we still think it has something unique to offer > to the world and we still think it's interesting enough to work on. > There is a lot of work to do: hammering out of the core theory, > cleaning up of the code base, improving the basic engineering, the UI, > the ecosystem… In the meantime, I am glad to have been able to spend > some more time with Darcs folks. I get a lot of happiness out seeing > that people are still interested in working on Darcs and taking us > further along. > > That said, as much as I may love Darcs personally, I also recognise > that for the past three years and perhaps many more I have not been in > a place where I knew how to fit free/open source software hacking into > my life. In fact, I hadn't been doing any such fitting at all, having > wandered off except for manning the spam filter, writing the odd HCAR > report. I've even — gasp! — gotten much much better at using Git. > > This is where Guillaume come in. Luckily for Darcs, some active > members of the team have been merrily going about the business of not > just hacking on Darcs, but running summer of code projects, recruiting > new developers, making links with the academic world. So how about we > make it official? How about we swap Guillaume in as the new face of > Darcs since he's already been effectively doing the job anyway? > > I hope I didn't overdo the “you'll be fine!” downplaying when I was in > Paris. The role is a bit more than a nominal one and does come with > some responsibility. But I've seen Guillaume at work, seen the energy > he's putting into organising things, into chasing up on people, seen > the way he runs a sprint. I think he'll be more than fine. > > So without further ado… I'd like to say, welcome to our new > maintainer, Guillaume Hoffmann! > > Eric > > PS: Good luck! No really, you will just be fine! :-) > > PPS Unfortunately, I'm not likely to make it to Seville for the next > one <http://darcs.net/Sprints/2016-01> but hope you have a great time, > and that I can see you in the future. > > -- > Eric Kow <http://erickow.com> > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > darcs-users@darcs.net > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users >
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