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[Guillaume Hoffmann]

>> What I recollect from your message, however, is that you point out a
>> general issue of Robustness with darcs, and I agree with this.
>
> Especially robustness as perceived by casual users. I personally find Darcs
> quite reliable in my day-to-day experience.

Yes, that's exactly the issue. As regular users we forget about the
first impression we had. We get used to work around flaws. Hence the
report you mentioned in your first mail is particularly useful!

> Another idea, but maybe this is silly: what about adding a "Don't like"
> button, which people can click on if they think this issue is particularly
> annoying (or looks like it gives Darcs a bad reputation)? Though that is
> probably a bit difficult to add to roundup.

What you describe makes me think of the "star" button on issues of
Google Code (see for instance
https://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/list).

This would require people to have an account on bugs.darcs.net for
this to work (if we want to avoid spam), and we don't really have a
lot of active users on bugs.darcs.net anyway :-/ Not sure it's worth
it...

Something we need would be someone to occupy the job of Issue Manager:
http://darcs.net/DarcsTeam#issue-manager . Eric is supposed to do it
but he does not have a lot of time on his hands. If you want to fill
in and dedicate yourself to triage/prioritize issues, you're very
welcome! :-)

Guillaume