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title: Nushell core team meeting 2023-12-06

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# Nushell core team meeting 2023-12-06
## Attendees
- fdncred
- sholderbach
- stormasm
- amtoine
- andres
- aucacoyan
- edhowland
- iwanttocrymyselftodeath
- kubouch
- sophia
- windsoilder

## Agenda
- [x] recruits
- [x] (quick topic) deprecate `std testing` in [#11151](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/11151)?
- [x] (@amtoine) organizing a community event to elect an official logo and a mascot? (see [discord](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/683070703716925568/1179695109109973015))
  - 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
- [x] make the spread of arguments to externals explicit? (see [this comment in #9116](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9116#issuecomment-1837367001) and there was a discussion in Discord as well)
    - [x] 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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## Issues
> :bulb: the issues which [needs-core-team-attention](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/labels/needs-core-team-attention)

> :bulb: **Note**
> to list all the PRs currently [opened in `nushell/nushell`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pulls):
> ```nu
> gh pr list --json url,number,author,title
> | from json
> | each {|i|
>     $"- [($i.number)]\(($i.url)\) ($i.title) \(@($i.author.login)\)"
> }
> | reverse
> | to text
> ```