[darcs-users] darcs on savannah

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:51:54PM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> It may be too soon to bring this up, but maybe not --
> 
> Savannah is about to add an option to use arch instead of CVS as the version
> control system for its projects. The Savannah folks want to make sure that
> any other system will also be supported (Subversion, etc).
> 
> irc.freenode.net #savannah (low traffic AFAICS) is one place to find out
> more about this. Mathieu Roy, Sam Vilain, and Jamie E. Villate are Savannah
> hackers who have been interested in working on arch. Maybe they'd also be
> the people to talk to about darcs.

Well, talking with them about supporting darcs would definitely be
interesting.  Working with them would definitely give useful input on where
darcs is lacking, which would be nice.  On the other hand, unless they are
willing to put in a fair amount of work troubleshooting, it is probably too
early.  They'd want to use the darcs-patcher, and it's the least tested
feature of darcs, and they'd want to automate the creation of darcs-patcher
repos, and that's actually less tested than the darcs-patcher.  I imagine
that they'd not be able to run the repo tests on their repository, since it
would put too much stress on the server (not to mention that they probably
wouldn't want the security vulnerability of letting users run code on their
servers).

So if you want to scope them out to see if they are interested, feel free.
But if they are likely to be turned off by some difficulties, it would
probably be better to wait a while.  I hope pretty soon to get the patcher
fancied up a bit--a confirmation message after patches are applied,
forwarding of unauthenticated patches, etc.  And then it would be nice to
also get the cgi script improved a bit.  Among other things, right now it
leaks into /var/cache... a cron job could deal with this, but that's pretty
ugly.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org