From purpleidea at gmail.com Fri Jan 18 03:49:49 2019 From: purpleidea at gmail.com (James) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:49:49 -0500 Subject: [mgmt] release: 0.0.17 (modules and import!) Message-ID: <1f6886363a3ebcee6b98a44725ca3c80c230f6cd.camel@gmail.com> I've just released version 0.0.17 of mgmt! > 269 files changed, 13281 insertions(+), 1633 deletions(-) There's some very useful stuff that landed since 0.0.16, including: * Modules and import system now exists! * A lot of tests, fixes and a huge new test infra was added * Merging puppet with mcl code is now possible (madness!) * We made a small change to the cli UI * Bump to golang 1.10 (please update your environments) And much more... DOWNLOAD Prebuilt binaries are available here: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.17 NEWS * One of the biggest missing features was the lack of a module/import system. After some initial exploration on what turned out to be a dead- end, I found what I think is a very elegant approach, which is now in this release. Please try it out, there are docs available. I hope to write a blog post about it soon. (There's one additional "kind" of import that I'm considering, similar to a macro "#include", that I might add. To be determined. Let me know if you find anything missing as of today.) * Felix added the first version of his mcl+puppet frontend. This should allow you to more cleverly merge legacy puppet environments with mcl code. It's fantastic, take a look. * Jonathan added a systemd-timer resource. This is a great replacement for cron. * We changed the CLI ui to improve the determinism of the frontend selection. Basically we changed from: `mgmt run --lang code.mcl` to: `mgmt run lang --lang code.mcl`. Remember to put --tmp-prefix after `run` directly where it is used. * We made a whole bunch of cleanups to the test infra, added new test infra for testing complex mcl modules and the import/module system, and of course added new tests. * You can pass a list of strings as the resource name to build that many resources. (Looping/iteration!) * You can specify all the metaparams and auto-* properties in mcl now. * Native mcl code can be used to write imported core code. * There was a bug that snuck into the pkg res. This has now been fixed. * A small, long-time copy+pasta error bug was fixed in Exec. * Virtually all the imports of the "log" package are at the top-level now. This will make moving to a new logger easier in the future. I have an innovative logger idea that I have a design for that I'll eventually get to. * A few workarounds for occasional test failures were added. Some legacy code needs a cleanup, and it's not done yet. Fortunately, none of these issues seem to occur in real-life as far as I can tell, and are caused by closing down mgmt at weird times. * Found a bug (now fixed) in the upstream lexer Yikes! See: 57ce3fa587897d74634c1216af67dd42252c64e5 * We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if there is support from those organizations as well. * Many other bug fixes, changes, etc... * See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out! MISC We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own! Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if you'd like help getting started! For details please see: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang Many new tagged #mgmtlove issues were tagged: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label% 3Amgmtlove MENTORING We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills, and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details. THANKS Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest release: Felix Frank, James Shubin, Jonathan Gold, Kevin Kuehler, Michael Lesko- Krleza, Tom Payne, Vincent Membr? We had 7 unique committers since 0.0.16, and have had 56 overall. run 'git log 0.0.16..0.0.17' to see what has changed since 0.0.16 Happy hacking, James @purpleidea -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: