Activity Digest: September 2016
This is an ongoing series of activity reports, published monthly, to highlight activity in our projects. Here is what happened in September 2016. This is not a complete list of all activity, just work that results in a non-trivial change. For a full list, see the git history of all the projects.
Summary
Tasksh 1.1.0 released, Anomaly 1.1.0 released. Flod2 is a major update that greatly improves speed and reliability of the CI system. It is working well, and will be rolled out in October, with new features and greater automation.
| Date | |
|---|---|
| 2016-09-02 | - Anomaly: Converted test suite to Python |
| - Task: Now with correct build instructions for the dev branch | |
| - Tasksh: Integrated libshared | |
| - Tasksh: Converted test suite to Python | |
| 2016-09-04 | - Anomaly: Version 1.1.0 released |
| - Task: Updated test suite to use only non-deprecated Boolean config values | |
| - #10: Autoclear in the Task Shell fixed | |
| - #27: Please add a (m)odify feature for review fixed | |
| 2016-09-05 | - Tasksh: Version 1.1.0 released, with new review feature |
| - Flod: All satellite build servers updated to latest releases | |
| 2016-09-06 | - Tasksh: Fixed build on Cygwin |
| - #28: tasksh hangs trying to read task from stdin fixed | |
| 2016-09-13 | - Rat: Modernized Tree object to use std::shared_ptr |
| 2016-09-15 | - libshared: Lexer can now disable individual features |
| - Rat: Upgraded from BNF to PEG | |
| 2016-09-16 | - libshared: Added Lexer tests when features are disabled |
| 2016-09-17 | - Guides: Setup guide now explicitly mentions taskd-user |
| - libshared: Migrated Tree object from the rat project | |
| - libshared: Added Pig::getcharacter, which was unexpectedly missing | |
| 2016-09-18 | - Rat: Now recognized junk at EOS |
| - Rat: Now implements positive/negative lookahead | |
| - Rat: Now offers trace in debug mode | |
| 2016-09-19 | - Guides: Taskd setup guides now references the troubleshooting guide |
- Rat: Now supports <character> intrinsic | |
| - gothenburgbitfactory.org: Central (Flod) pages are now HTTPS always | |
| 2016-09-25 | - Flod2: Reworked scripts for efficiency, converted to Python, changed to a non-daemon model |
| 2016-09-27 | - Holidata: Added US 2017, 2018; GB 2017, 2018 dates |
| 2016-09-29 | - #22: Fix holiday type on en-GB Christmas 2016 fixed |
| - #23: I think some files weren’t added after the last build fixed | |
| 2016-09-30 | - Guides: Taskd troubleshooting guides gains more diagnostic commands |