Hi Haskellers, today I scrached an itch that was icking for a while: When I submit patches to some project or person, I’m never sure that I won’t forget checking that the patch will actually be applied. But if I forget, and the maitainer forgets (or decides against), my patch would be lost. Therefore I wrote a little haskell program darcswatch, which has a bunch of patches to track, and a bunch of repositories to watch, and shows you what patches have to be applied where. You see it in action here: http://darcswatch.nomeata.de/ To use it conveniently, I have put this in my ~/.darcs/defaults: send sign send cc darcswatch@nomeata.de so all patches I send will be signed and copied to that address. For security reasons, only mails signed by allowed gpg keys are accepted and the webpage is updated. It is also updated every hour by a cronjob. As you can see the program is ready to track patches by several authors. If you want to try it out and help debug it, just drop me a (signed) note with your gpg key-id, also listing all repositories you want to be tracked. I would also appreciate any help with programming darcswatch. There is a darcs repository on http://darcs.nomeata.de/darcswatch/ (with DarcsWeb at http://darcs.nomeata.de/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=darcswatch;a=summary). There is a lot to do yet, I quote the TODO list on http://darcs.nomeata.de/darcswatch/README : * Support for tagged repositories (fetching older inventories) * Cache the inventories and only update when needed, by issuing a HEAD request. * Add a download link to each pach * Add the diff to each patch, with some javascript hiding/unhiding. * Cabalize the program. * Detect inverted patches and treat specially (e.g. an unapplied patch where the user also submitted an inverted patch can be considered obsolete) * Nicer output (CSS magic!) * (Maybe) Add repositores per gpg signed command Haskell projects could also make use of darcswatch by tracking patches that were submitted to a bugtracker (e.g. for xmonad) or via the mailing list, to make sure no contribution is lost. I could also imagine that it might be a service that, if proven reliable, could be run on community.haskell.org or similar. As always, comments are appreciated. Enjoy, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org