is darcs being maintained
Submitted by metaperl on Mon, 08/29/2005 - 3:31am.
I noticed some discussion on #haskell about darcs needing a new maintainer. Should I look at other options for version control that are better maintained and supported or is this just rumours about darcs? I hope they are.
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Hi!
No, it's true...darcs needs a new maintainer for a 'stable' branch, so that David & other devs can have more time hacking on 'unstable' :-)
Don't worry :-)
Sincerely,
Gour
I couldn't find anything on the mailing lists about this, and I also didn't find anything in the #haskell logs. So I really don't know what this is about.
That said, I can say that I'm not worried. There are several reasons for that. First, Ian Lynagh is already maintaining darcs-unstable, and doing a fine job of it. So if David suddenly decided to leave, there are people already working on it. Second, I haven't seen any indication that David is leaving. And third, even in a worst-case scenario (say, darcs suddenly takes a dive in popularity), I could always use tailor to switch to something else.
No sense giving up the features of darcs unless I really have to, IMHO.