go4
go4.org is a collection of packages for
Go programmers.
They started out living in Perkeep's repo
and elsewhere but they have nothing to do with Perkeep, so we're
moving them here.
Details
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single repo. go4 is a single repo. That means things can be
changed and rearranged globally atomically with ease and
confidence. -
no backwards compatibility. go4 makes no backwards compatibility
promises. If you want to use go4, vendor it. And next time you
update your vendor tree, update to the latest API if things in go4
changed. The plan is to eventually provide tools to make this
easier. -
forward progress because we have no backwards compatibility,
it's always okay to change things to make things better. That also
means the bar for contributions is lower. We don't have to get the
API 100% correct in the first commit. -
no Go version policy go4 packages are usually built and tested
with the latest Go stable version. However, go4 has no overarching
version policy; each package can declare its own set of supported
Go versions. -
code review contributions must be code-reviewed. We're trying
out Gerrithub, to see if we can find a mix of Github Pull Requests
and Gerrit that works well for many people. We'll see. -
CLA compliant contributors must agree to the Google CLA (the
same as Go itself). This ensures we can move things into Go as
necessary in the future. It also makes lawyers at various
companies happy. The CLA is not a copyright assignment; you
retain the copyright on your work. The CLA just says that your
work is open source and you have permission to open source it. See
https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html#cla -
docs, tests, portability all code should be documented in the
normal Go style, have tests, and be portable to different
operating systems and architectures. We'll try to get builders in
place to help run the tests on different OS/arches. For now we
have Travis at least.
Contact
For any question, or communication when a Github issue is not appropriate,
please contact the Perkeep mailing
list.