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

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:45 PM, adam vogt wrote:

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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(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.

Well, I would point out that right now, XMC has only one patch outstanding, from 2 or 3 months ago. So a 'complete' chart would show one more red point just under the lowest dotted line - not a significant difference. But XMonad has ~10 patches outstanding: http://darcswatch.nomeata.de/repo_http:__code.haskell.org_xmonad.html 5 patches are from 2009; so that means 5 blue dots are at least 125 days old. The oldest 2 are from July 2009, so that means they are ~339 days old - the second box from the top, older than the oldest patch - which is also an XMonad patch BTW. Toss in the other 3 2009 patches in the 200-300 box, and then the remaining 5 somewhere in the lower 2 boxes. If those were plotted, the charts would not look so comparable. -- gwern