# CLI WG newsletter #1

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/cli-wg-newsletter-1/7061>\
**Category:** announcements\
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/cli-wg-newsletter-1/7061 "2018-03-15T19:50:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![killercup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/killercup/32/3256_2.png) [@killercup](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/killercup)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/cli-wg-newsletter-1/7061/1 "2018-03-15T19:50:28Z")

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Welcome to the first ever CLI working group newsletter!

The CLI WG’s goal is to make writing cross-platform, well-tested, modern command line applications in Rust frictionless.

## What we are currently discussing

Here are some of the most active issues we have been discussing:

- [How to best handle configuration files?](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/7)
- [Standardize CLI color control](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/15)
- [Packaging and distributing apps cross-platform](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/8)
- […and many more!](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues)

## Help wanted

Currently, we are figuring out which concrete issues we need to solve. To help us with that, **please [fill out this short survey](https://goo.gl/forms/RwVxCo9gnIKkHkDn2)** if you haven’t already!

Other than that, we are trying to help with design work and coordination to push some important crates towards their next major release (e.g., assert\_cli 1.0 and clap 3.0). This will most likely mean we’ll have a good set of well-documented and beginner-friendly issues here in the next newsletter issue!

## Join in!

We keep track of open discussion in [this repo](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg) and you are very welcome to join us [on Gitter](https://gitter.im/rust-lang/WG-CLI) to chat about what you want

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This newsletter will be released every two weeks. If you want to get something mentioned, leave a comment on [this issue](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/cli-wg/issues/19).

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/cli-wg-newsletter-1/7061/2 "2019-03-25T08:29:54Z")

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