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"Jason Dagit wrote to the list to thank everyone for their support for darcs, and to announce a webpage with a roadmap for future darcs features. Darcs is alive and well!" -- (via Haskell Weekly News)
"User can use several packages to work with Darcs. The darcsum package (available from author's site) implements native support for Darcs, reflecting it ideology. Besides this, there are also Darcs support modules for VC (described in Work with VC) and for DVC (described in Work DVC) packages..." -- via http://alexott.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-part-of-article-now-about-em...
The free, open source code management system, Darcs, has been updated to version 2.4 with experimental interactive hunk editing, faster record and revert operations and a plan to take on performance
"Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcome the Darcs project as its newest member. Darcs joins 15 other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects..."
"Hi everybody, We are getting closer to signing the Software Freedom Conservancy agreement (hereby attached). Before doing this, we will need to address the question of who is representing darcs to the Conservancy, and how do we change this representation should the need arise..."
"This week I decided to convert my Ledger repository over to Git. Previously I’d been using Subversion for about 4 years, and CVS for 1 year before that. There was a brief flirt with Darcs, and Mercurial, but neither ever attracted me enough to convert the repository officially..."
etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades.
Folks using RubyForge have been requesting alternatives to CVS and Subversion for a while - there are feature requests in for Mercurial, Monotone, Darcs, and Git. Of those, Git seems to be the most popular at the moment, so thanks to Garry Dolley's excellent tutorial on Gitosis, RubyForge now supports Git as one of the SCM choices. Huzzah! ..."
