[xmonad] Re: darcs patch: XMonad.Core: rw recompilation

[Don Stewart]

vogt.adam:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (I would like to run the numbers, but I don't know any way to ask
> > Darcs for when a patch was applied to a given repo, as opposed to when
> > a patch was recorded; with the former, I could check on things like
> > 'did the average time before a patch was dealt with definitively
> > shrink or expand when gwern switched email styles?')
> >
> > As I've suggested before: if you and Spencer are so overloaded as to
> > be unable to review modest patches given half a year, why not give a
> > third person the core commit bit? I wouldn't trust myself with the
> > core, but is there no one else? Joachim Breitner, for example, since
> > he's already patching Xmonad-core under his Debian maintainer hat.
> 
> Here is a graph to compare the kinds of delays core and contrib
> patches take before being applied:
> 
> http://code.haskell.org/~aavogt/darcsVersions/applyDelays.svg
> http://code.haskell.org/~aavogt/darcsVersions/applyDelays.png (much
> smaller file)
> 
> Note that you need a copy of the relevant repos that preserves the
> mtime of the patches, which darcs get doesn't preserve, in order to
> generate that graph with:
> http://code.haskell.org/~aavogt/darcsVersions/cmpDates.hs
> 
> Going from what's in the repos, core and contrib situations are not
> much different.
> 

Beautiful data.