May-June 2020 in Darker: New features and community growth

[akaihola]

During May and June 2020, the Darker project saw significant progress with the addition of new features and increased community involvement. Two major pull requests were opened, focusing on enhancing Darker's compatibility with Black and improving its usability.

The first PR (#3) introduced support for Black's command-line arguments, specifically --line-length and --skip-string-normalization. This addition allows users to customize Darker's behavior to match their Black configuration, making it more flexible for various coding styles. The second PR (#4) added a --diff option to align Darker's behavior with Black, enabling its use as a formatter in VS Code with minimal configuration changes.

In addition to these feature enhancements, the project saw contributions from new community members. The maintainers actively engaged with contributors, requesting updates to the changelog and the newly created CONTRIBUTORS.rst file. The README was also updated to include a GitHub stars trend, showcasing the project's growing popularity. Furthermore, contribution instructions were added (#6), making it easier for new contributors to get involved. Notably, the README was updated to mention the deprecation of Darken, a similar project, in favor of Darker (#7), indicating Darker's increasing adoption in the Python community.

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