Status update 2017-05-19
There has been a ton of great libz blitz progress this week. We are going to need even more help to keep up the momentum! Contribution opportunities are in bold.
log
- Tracking issue for all the improvements we need to make; there are so many issues! Please help
- We still need to write some good cookbook examples!
- @dpc, @LilianMoraru, @sfackler, @vl0 provided valuable feedback on their experience using log
- The libs team held our video meeting to discuss log (recording)
- @alexcrichton wrote down minutes of the meeting
reqwest
- The evaluation is underway!
- @KodrAus made amazing progress on the guidelines checklist
- There are many more guidelines to evaluate!
- @budziq came up with some nice cookbook examples
- The libs team discussion will happen a week from Tuesday
url
- We need help triaging and reviewing PRs!
- @hngnaig added some new examples
- @tmccombs improved documentation
flate2
memmap
Cookbook
- We filed tons of easy ways for new contributors to chip in! Check out CONTRIBUTING.md
- We successfully begged for help on reddit; thanks for the amazing response
- @budziq installed aspell to catch all of our typos
- @budziq added two rand examples
- @budziq added a log level example
- @budziq added an example of downloading a file to a temp directory
- @budziq added two GitHub API examples
- @budziq added a quick way to edit examples straight from the cookbook website
- @budziq set up a way to hide boilerplate error handling code
- @budziq made sure our example code never goes out of date
- @gsquire added an example of making an http HEAD request
- @Michael-F-Bryan added an example of parsing subprocess output
- @xpayn added an example of extracting a tarball to a temp directory
- @jaemk added an example of using lazy_static
- @bjnyfv added an example of hex encoding
- @cetra3 added an example of logging to a custom filepath
- @jaemk added an example of using global mutable state
- @raph2hpoutre added an example of base64 encoding
- @xpayn added an example of recursively traversing a directory
- @AndyGauge added an example of listening on a random port
- @budziq added an example of url-encoding
- @jeanm provided some visual improvements
- @jmcomets is working on two env_logger examples
- @AndyGauge is working on a POST example
- @budziq is working on a header and url param example
- @budziq is working on timestamped log messages
- @karan1276 is working on a threadpool example
- @DeltaManiac is working on a memmap example
- @luisbg and @henninglive started thinking about an html5ever example
- @luisbg is working on a walkdir predicate example
- @budziq is working on making hyperlinks look nicer
- @derekdreery suggested a new example
- @budziq suggested some walkdir examples
API guidelines
- What lessons can we learn from the reqwest crate?
- Guidelines need to be updated based on the log evaluation!
- @daboross caught and fixed a small mistake
- tempdir raised the question of a convention for checked teardown
Thanks everyone!