Re: new darcs maintainer: Guillaume Hoffmann

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 <[email protected]>:

> 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>
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