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 0.0.21 of mgmt!
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> 178 files changed, 4351 insertions(+), 829 deletions(-)
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This was a very lonely release but it includes some very useful
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additions since 0.0.20, including:
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* The first mgmt meme!
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* Working distro packages for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Arch!
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* Reversible resources!
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* A deploy package to let you read files from the active deploy
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* Improved file resource behaviours
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And much more...
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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/0.0.21
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NEWS
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* Someone made a cool mgmt meme. Look in art/mgmt_*_meme.jpg
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* Distro packages are now built properly, so they should all work now.
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We have builds for Fedora-30, Fedora-29, Debian-10, Ubuntu-Bionic, and
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Archlinux. If you'd like a build for a different distro/version please
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let me know.
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* We finally got rid of the old `Compare(...) bool` API, and moved to
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`Cmp(...) error`. We'll now get more useful information from Res
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compares when they differ. Thanks to new contributor Donald Bakong for
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working on this. He's ramping up his golang contributions, so we expect
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to see more from him in the future!
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* We now have reversible resources. Basically if you create a resource
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and specify the reverse metaparam, eg: `Meta:reverse => true`, then if
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a resource is removed (either because a new version of code doesn't
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have it anymore OR more importantly if it was inside an `if` block that
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became false) then the engine will perform some "reverse" action for
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it. For a file, if it was added, we'll remove it. If it was edited,
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we'll undo the edit. If we added ugo+w, we'll remove that. And so on.
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The engine bits are done, and as well so have the file resource bits.
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It should be easy to add this for any other resource where it makes
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sense. This will likely be a very powerful feature that we use a lot.
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* The file resource was changed slightly so that by default the "state"
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is undefined. As a result, if you want a file to be created and none is
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present, you need to specify the state. Otherwise specifying "content"
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will only edit a file if it already exists, and otherwise be an error.
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It turns out this is actually a better behaviour, even if it's not
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necessarily intuitive for puppet users. It turns out it simplifies the
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code drastically and makes the reversible file resource much more
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logical. It seems that Puppet and Ansible got this wrong, but Cfengine
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got it right. IIRC. Do you agree? (Look at the code!)
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* We now catch CR \r characters in code so that you don't wonder why
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the compiler is telling you about unexpected whitespace. This should
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make your life easier.
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* You can now read files from within the deploy. This can be used for
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templates or anything else. This was one of the last missing things
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that was blocking me from writing useful mcl modules.
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* Fixed a copy-pasta bug where the != operator (for strings only) was
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actually doing an ==. Woops! The good news is that we've been shaking
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out silly bugs because I've been using mgmt more and more. Hopefully
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there aren't any woops ones like this left!
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* A bunch of function, class, and include tests were added. We're
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getting really well tested!
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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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* Function values as args don't work yet. This is blocking us from
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implementing functions like map/reduce/filter, because they'd want to
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receive a function as input. TBH, I'm a bit tunnel-visioned on this,
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because I'm not the compilers genius that you are. If you can help,
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please let me know. I'll be posting a bunch of test cases that show
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what's needed shortly.
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* Three patches have been submitted to mkosi to support the image
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building I've been doing. They're not merged yet, so you'll have to
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apply them yourself if you want to make your own distro images. This
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isn't a major requirement anyone should have, but if they're not
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merged, we'll store them here and apply them as needed.
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TALKS
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I'll be in Belgium for FOSDEM and CfgMgmtCamp in 2020. If I'm lucky
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I'll have at least one mgmt presentation. I might also consider going
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to DevConf.cz if I get a talk accepted. Feel to ping me if you'd like
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to hack, get consulting, training, etc while I'm in Europe!
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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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bjanssens, Donald Bakong, James Shubin
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We had 3 unique committers since 0.0.20, and have had 69 overall.
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run 'git log 0.0.20..0.0.21' to see what has changed since 0.0.20
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Happy hacking,
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James
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@purpleidea
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