[darcs-users] RFC: GSoC proposal: Distributed Issue Tracking in Darcsden

[Vikraman]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:38:12PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> Hi Vikraman,
> 
> (I'm afraid I don't have feedback for you specifically, but just
> general musing on GSoC)
> 

Hi Eric,

Thanks anyway for taking the time to go through my proposal.

> Exploratory proposals like this are cool in that they explicitly put
> Darcs in the interesting-research realm of version control (aside from
> being a usable system with a friendly UI). We have some experience
> doing exploratory projects (Petr's primitive patches 3 work)
> 
> From a practical standpoint, I'd be a bit nervous about whether or not
> we could deliver an actually usable issue tracker, and whether we
> would want to maintain something like a darcs issues in the codebase;
> on the other hand, part of me thinks that it'd be good for Darcs to
> wholeheartedly embrace its Out-Thereness and dive into projects like
> this.  For example maybe the work on trying to fit an alternative set
> of patch commutation rules would force us to discover lots more
> interesting holes in patch theory (or at least force us to reorganise,
> refactor, clean up the Darcs library even more).
> 

Both Ganesh and Guillaume have expressed concerns over this as well. In
my defence, I have allocated the initial part of my timeline to building
a minimal, usable issue tracker, which uses files in a darcs repository
instead of worrying about patch theoretic stuff. If I don't deliver this
by the midterm evaluations, feel free to fail me =).

However, I still intend to spend some time to work on the patch theory
for the issue tracker, since I don't have anything to do this summer!

-- 
Vikraman
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