Nushell core team meeting 2022-10-05

Attendees

• Darren
• Michael
• Reilly
• Stefan
• Andres
• JT

Agenda & Discussed Topics

• (darren) zhiburt's new flags for table. These really just expose some "fancy" features that tabled uses. We're trying to find ways to make tables look better, if possible. --expand(-e), --expand-deep(-d) <int>, --flatten, --flatten-separator, --collapse(-c) - needs testing but is in the latest main.
  • sys | table --expand
  • sys | table -e
• https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/6649 -> deals with scoping refer to Jakub
• Completions (Stefan chat with Dan)
  • Would be nice to have the currently selected line already on the buffer
  • Fix for some of the quick completion weirdness by dd7
  • Generally completions/menu system needs a refactor (postponed: work more than a few hours)
• Pest sadly doesn't seem to work well as an error recovering parser for REPL (Darren chat with CAD)
  • Treesitter is great for incremental parsing but not directly in rust like pest
  • https://crates.io/crates/tree-sitter but needs a build.rs to get there as it generates C code
  • Treesitter and pest (PEG) are great for experimentation in the grammar document and there exist playgrounds
  • Andres: nom (parser combinators) was used originally in nushell (harder to experiment)
• Growing the core team
  • We want to keep the momentum for the project but our resources on the current team also have fluctuations
  • Some promising candidates we could ask to join the team.
  • At what point do we have to compartimentalize some of the meetings/discussions to not overburden each core contributor?
  • Discussion for next week: Release cycle maybe 4 weeks (orga overhead vs. testing requirement and breaking changes)
• Hacktoberfest
  • Requires reviews and good first issue labelling
  • no clear vote yet