Nushell core team meeting 2024-08-28

Attendees

• Darren
• Stefan
• Devyn
• Michael
• Ian
• NotTheDroids

Agenda

• Shrinking for stability, discarding problematic or underused features for increased stability and reduced externalities
  • Move str deunicode to plugin
  • Ditch system-clipboard
  • Other underused areas that should be plugins?
• engaging with the community
  • blog posts, community content
  • Resources for folks wanting to step up/help out?
• Slaying the issue backlog - Shoutout @weirdan

Discussed Topics

removals

• str deunicode into plugin from Darren
• system-clipboard removed from the

IR switch

Let's toggle the default (after checking with the failing tests)

community engagement

• Devyn: could community content become part of TWiN (on top of the )
• NotTheDroids: Make TWiN discoverable from the website (currently a repo and shared on twitter)
  • part of the top menu rework

Issue triage

• Thanks for all the closing work Weirdan!
• Stalebot
  • people got mad
  • notification spam
• needs-triage/question

streaming

• describe reports stream on things that internally collect
• places to improve par-each, etc.

Config

• step 1: less bugging about creating a config if the config dir exists
• missing $env.config with empty user config
• barebones user config vs/with rich default config