On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Gwern Branwen
(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. -- Adam