docs: Add old release notes
These release notes used to live on the mailing list at: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/mgmtconfig-list/ until Red Hat killed off this excellent service recently. I'm adding them all here for reference. Before 0.0.9 there were no release notes.
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I've just released version 0.0.18 of mgmt!
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> 202 files changed, 5606 insertions(+), 1880 deletions(-)
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There's some great stuff that landed since 0.0.17, including:
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* A re-write of the core engine algorithm
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* Tests are very stable
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* At least three old bugs were killed
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* An infra to write tests for individual resources was added
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And much more...
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This adds a significant amount of polish and bug fixes to mgmt. We're
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on the home stretch to MVP!
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DOWNLOAD
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Prebuilt binaries are available here:
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https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/releases/tag/0.0.18
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NEWS
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* There was a rare race that would panic the engine on shutdown. This
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only seemed to happen in CPU/system call starved environments like
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travis-ci. This was due to some ignorance when writing this early part
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of the code base. The algorithm has been re-written, and this also
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removed the use of at least one mutex. Things should be stable now, and
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also much faster. (Although perf was never an issue.)
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* A hidden race/deadlock in the exec resource was found and killed.
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Woo! Some new tools to help find these and other problems are in misc/
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* The early converger code was re-written. I was not as knowledgeable
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about golang in the very beginning, and this code needed refreshing. It
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contained a rare deadlock which needed to be killed.
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* Toshaan added an uptime() function.
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* Julien added a method for generating some simple functions for the
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language.
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* Lander added two new functions.
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* James added a new readfile() function, and other examples.
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* The template function now allows you to use imported functions. They
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use underscores instead of periods for namespace separation due to a
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limitation in the template library.
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* Kevin and I killed a tricky race in the SocketSet code! Woo :) Kevin
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also added a great cpucount() fact!
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* James gave a number of presentations at FOSDEM. Some recordings are
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available: https://purpleidea.com/talks/
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* We're looking for help writing Amazon, Google, DigitalOcean, etc
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resources if anyone is interested, reach out to us. Particularly if
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there is support from those organizations as well.
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* Many other bug fixes, changes, etc...
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* See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out!
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BUGS
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* An unfortunate bug in the type unification code was found. This can
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cause small code bases to take a lot of ram/cpu to run. This will be
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prioritized in an upcoming release. Until then you'll have to avoid
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fancy type unification. (Specify types you know when it has to guess.)
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If efficient type unification algorithms are your specialty, please let
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us know, we'd like your help!
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MISC
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We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium
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and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own!
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Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if
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you'd like help getting started! For details please see:
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https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#how-do-i-con
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tribute-to-the-project-if-i-dont-know-golang
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Many tagged #mgmtlove issues exist:
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https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%
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3Amgmtlove
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MENTORING
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We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get
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involved. This is fun and friendly! You get to improve your skills,
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and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details.
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THANKS
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Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest
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release:
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Felix Frank, James Shubin, Jeff Waugh, Johan Bloemberg, Julien Pivotto,
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Kevin Kuehler, Lander Van den Bulcke, Toshaan Bharvani
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We had 8 unique committers since 0.0.17, and have had 58 overall.
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run 'git log 0.0.17..0.0.18' to see what has changed since 0.0.17
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Happy hacking,
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James
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@purpleidea
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