Nushell core team meeting 2023-12-06

Attendees

• fdncred
• sholderbach
• stormasm
• amtoine
• andres
• aucacoyan
• edhowland
• iwanttocrymyselftodeath
• kubouch
• sophia
• windsoilder

Agenda

• recruits
• (quick topic) deprecate std testing in #11151?
• (@amtoine) organizing a community event to elect an official logo and a mascot? (see discord)
  • themes to follow, e.g. elephant, friendly, shell, …
  • for a few weeks
  • submit a logo / a mascot
  • in a thread or by email
  • anonymous
  • preselection to remove trolls and bad fits
  • vote for a few days in a GitHub poll or reacting to a Discord message or Google form
• make the spread of arguments to externals explicit? (see this comment in #9116 and there was a discussion in Discord as well)
  • panic hooks to fix upstream panic in chrono: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/10558

Discussed Topics

Logo / Mascot contest

• Amtoine has been succesfully voluntold
• see the top level agenda for thoughts
  • • License / Copyright has to be clear beforehand

Passing rest / spread

• externals work automagically
  • you can already spread a list of string
• internals are harder to work with currently

JT: if we can sanely make that explicit the better, we don't know if something is internal/external at local glance as a user (without ^)

We now have the spread operator: but it currently is only provided for inside record/list literals.

• Aim to get this in in call position and then tighten externals as the next step
  • Antoine: ysthakur is interested in implementing that
  • some extra typechecking challenges possible

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Note
to list all the PRs currently opened in nushell/nushell:

gh pr list --json url,number,author,title
| from json
| each {|i|
    $"- [($i.number)]\(($i.url)\) ($i.title) \(@($i.author.login)\)"
}
| reverse
| to text