Danny Weldon
2016-08-18 12:33:37 UTC
Repo and Release management
With David and Glen's departure from att, is anybody within att actively
leading the development of ast and/or ksh as I believe they were able to
manage this during work time and I imagine that they don't have as much
time for this now?
There are a number of open issues and some pull requests in github but no
responses have been made so I guess most are wondering what is happening.
Could somebody external to att be allowed to at least manage the repo
to tag releases and label and assign issues to people? It would also
be nice to have a roadmap of what is planned (or hoped for). I have
a few ideas for ksh that I am hoping to put forward myself soon and it
would be nice to get feedback for such feature requests.
Automated Regression Testing
Does att have an internal build environment for automated regression and
cross-platform testing after commits? If not, would att be open to at
least providing this to encourage external contributions? So that
perhaps git commits trigger automated build testing?
Documentation
Could att just upload the documentation source to github so that it can
be edited from git and host it again somewhere, pulling the source from
github automatically when it is updated?
Note for anyone interested, it's browseable on wayback here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151104235435/http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/download/
I don't know if the downloads will work, but this link sets up the
frames properly for browsing.
Which also reminds me: are the old binary downloads going to be made
available on github as well?
With David and Glen's departure from att, is anybody within att actively
leading the development of ast and/or ksh as I believe they were able to
manage this during work time and I imagine that they don't have as much
time for this now?
There are a number of open issues and some pull requests in github but no
responses have been made so I guess most are wondering what is happening.
Could somebody external to att be allowed to at least manage the repo
to tag releases and label and assign issues to people? It would also
be nice to have a roadmap of what is planned (or hoped for). I have
a few ideas for ksh that I am hoping to put forward myself soon and it
would be nice to get feedback for such feature requests.
Automated Regression Testing
Does att have an internal build environment for automated regression and
cross-platform testing after commits? If not, would att be open to at
least providing this to encourage external contributions? So that
perhaps git commits trigger automated build testing?
Documentation
Could att just upload the documentation source to github so that it can
be edited from git and host it again somewhere, pulling the source from
github automatically when it is updated?
Note for anyone interested, it's browseable on wayback here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151104235435/http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/download/
I don't know if the downloads will work, but this link sets up the
frames properly for browsing.
Which also reminds me: are the old binary downloads going to be made
available on github as well?
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Regards
Danny
Regards
Danny