Nushell core team meeting 2024-12-11

Attendees

• Michael
• Antoine
• Ian
• Douglas
• Piepmatz
• Rose
• Yash
• Stefan
• Devyn

Agenda

• Next release date
  • Blog/Social Media Announcement if it changes; also Discord Status update
  • Darren noted in the discord core team chat that whoever is actually going to work on the release should decide when it is most convenient for them to do it.
• Christmas Day - December 25 Meeting? Move, skip, or hold as usual ?
• New Years Day - January 01 Meeting? Move, skip, or hold as usual ?
• Michael: sqlite history vs text history
• Formal grammar for new parser
• Rose: status update on env.nu

Discussed Topics

Christmas release

• early feature freeze: Thursday 19th
  • release over the weekend or possibly monday: release team has to assemble and decide
  • (feels more optional) post release meeting (push away from the holidays, reduced attendance): maybe driven by the release event

sqlite vs. text history

• Requirements for changing the defaults would be:
  • Migration tool for users
  • easy editing (deletion of secrets etc.)
• Rose: rich text history as nuon
  • newline delimited version as Antoine recently added
  • would permit same rich feature as sqlite (would require some optims)
  • history in any to format? difficult because of reedline

env.nu / meta-hacks for multistage conifg

• https://hackmd.io/@132ikl/SJG0Mn4E1e
• many integrations
  • PRs for them as soon as we have arrived at a good solution with our vendor autoload dir strategy
  • we shouldn't do the breaking change immediately (no rename to preconfig.nu etc. with this release)
• ENV_CONVERSION obsolescence
• this cycle: still create env.nu
• https://hackmd.io/iGnsNaNPQA6EtOAbh3SPdg
• Devyn: eventually we should be able to get rid of the whole idea of env.nu and just have config.nu