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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 0.0.17 of mgmt!
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> 269 files changed, 13281 insertions(+), 1633 deletions(-)
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There's some very useful stuff that landed since 0.0.16, including:
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* Modules and import system now exists!
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* A lot of tests, fixes and a huge new test infra was added
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* Merging puppet with mcl code is now possible (madness!)
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* We made a small change to the cli UI
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* Bump to golang 1.10 (please update your environments)
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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/0.0.17
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NEWS
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* One of the biggest missing features was the lack of a module/import
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system. After some initial exploration on what turned out to be a dead-
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end, I found what I think is a very elegant approach, which is now in
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this release. Please try it out, there are docs available. I hope to
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write a blog post about it soon.
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(There's one additional "kind" of import that I'm considering, similar
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to a macro "#include", that I might add. To be determined. Let me know
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if you find anything missing as of today.)
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* Felix added the first version of his mcl+puppet frontend. This should
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allow you to more cleverly merge legacy puppet environments with mcl
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code. It's fantastic, take a look.
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* Jonathan added a systemd-timer resource. This is a great replacement
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for cron.
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* We changed the CLI ui to improve the determinism of the frontend
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selection. Basically we changed from: `mgmt run --lang code.mcl` to:
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`mgmt run lang --lang code.mcl`. Remember to put --tmp-prefix after
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`run` directly where it is used.
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* We made a whole bunch of cleanups to the test infra, added new test
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infra for testing complex mcl modules and the import/module system, and
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of course added new tests.
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* You can pass a list of strings as the resource name to build that
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many resources. (Looping/iteration!)
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* You can specify all the metaparams and auto-* properties in mcl now.
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* Native mcl code can be used to write imported core code.
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* There was a bug that snuck into the pkg res. This has now been fixed.
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* A small, long-time copy+pasta error bug was fixed in Exec.
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* Virtually all the imports of the "log" package are at the top-level
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now. This will make moving to a new logger easier in the future. I have
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an innovative logger idea that I have a design for that I'll eventually
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get to.
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* A few workarounds for occasional test failures were added. Some
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legacy code needs a cleanup, and it's not done yet. Fortunately, none
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of these issues seem to occur in real-life as far as I can tell, and
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are caused by closing down mgmt at weird times.
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* Found a bug (now fixed) in the upstream lexer Yikes! See:
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57ce3fa587897d74634c1216af67dd42252c64e5
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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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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 new tagged #mgmtlove issues were tagged:
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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, Jonathan Gold, Kevin Kuehler, Michael Lesko-
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Krleza, Tom Payne, Vincent Membré
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We had 7 unique committers since 0.0.16, and have had 56 overall.
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run 'git log 0.0.16..0.0.17' to see what has changed since 0.0.16
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Happy hacking,
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James
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@purpleidea
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