[TWiR] Call for Participation

[mgattozzi]

Recently I started the Rust::from(lang) project in order to help transition people from other languages to Rust with articles that show how to do something in one language and then how to do it in Rust and comparing the two. Really right now what the project needs are a few things:

• Newcomers to Rust from various languages to open up issues and requests on things they're having problems with and what languages they are familiar with.
• Seasoned Rust developers writing about either issues opened up or on topics they know how to translate from one language into Rust and the best practices to do so.

Here are some language tracking issues I've opened up below:
- JS
- xBase++/Delphi
- Go
- Haskell
- Java
- C
- C++
- Python
- Ruby

While I'm sure there are more languages this were just a few I opened. Anyone is welcome to write for whatever language or to open up an issue or request for any language.

[est31]

These should be some fairly easy tasks (with steps described how to do it):

Issue: Removal of the lang feature gate tests whitelist

I'll wait two weeks until I start working on the issue myself. Is that long enough? Should I wait a month?

[dead10ck]

Issue: Integration testing

The whole crate needs some love, but the addition of integration testing is arguably the most important, to ensure correctness. Current contributors, including myself, unfortunately don't have a lot of free time to dedicate to the crate. There are several issues that are tagged as help-wanted.

For those interested in experimenting with tokio, there's also this issue:

Issue: Parallel communication to brokers

[carols10cents]

Hi! I'm helping out with crates.io now, and I'd love to help get more people contributing. I've got 6 E-mentor tagged issues right now that I've added some description to as to what's needed to fix them. I'm going to try to keep it around that number and be responsive to questions. I'd love if some of these ended up in TWiR regularly!

[hoodie]

I'm looking for somebody with a little experience in gnome or kde development to add a missing feature to notify-rust, a desktop notification library. The spec (on gnome at least) supports inline images in notifications though paths or by sending bitmap data directory.

I consider this medium since it requires doing a bit of research by may ultimately not involve too many lines of code 🤞. Anybody interested in improving the rust desktop integration story?
I'm looking forward to your PR resolving this issue.

[brson]

I'm looking for somebody to fix a long-standing bug in the tempdir crate, and publish an improved remove_dir_all function to crates.io in the process.

The issue is that the std remove_dir_all doesn't work correctly on windows:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29497

This hasn't been fixed in-tree, where PRs get a lot of scrutiny, but it affects real code, and I open code a bad remove_dir_all myself anytime I need to remove_dir_all. In the meantime, tempdir, a popular crate with a desperate need to remove dirs, is affected by this bug.

There's a PR open to fix tempdir:

https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/tempdir/pull/17#issuecomment-285835625

But it is stalled. Here are my comments about what needs to happen next:

https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/tempdir/issues/15#issuecomment-286513675

That last issue is probably the one to link from twir.

[brson]

Issue: Installation failure via the script has bad error message

[brson]

• rustup: Build with panic=abort
• rustup: Replace custom download crate with reqwest
• rustup: "update not yet available" message should not error
• rustup: Document the use of toolchain link
• rustup: Document the usage of CARGO_HOME and RUSTUP_HOME to install to a custom location
• rustup: Improve indentation of help
• rustup: Installation failure via the script has bad error message

[brson]

Issue: Add CI badges to toml file

Issue: Add categories to toml file

Issue: Implement Hex, Octal, and Binary

Issue: Add an example of what the macro-expanded API looks like

Issue: Remove mention of stable 'assignment_ops' feature from docs

Issue: Add html_root_url crate attribute

Issue: Add keywords and categories to Cargo.toml

Issue: Add CI badges to Cargo.toml

Issue: Move docs to the crate level

Issue: Mention Default trait in the docs

Issue: Semicolons

Issue: Empty bitflags has unhelpful Debug representation

Issue: Hide @_impl implementation detail from the bitflags! rustdoc

[brson]

Issue: `target add` and `component add` should succeed if target/component is already installed

[mmstick]

The Ion shell project that I maintain could use some contributors to implement missing features, either in Ion or the accompanying liner project. If anyone asks, I can easily provide mentorship. I've done a lot of work to rewrite and complete as much of the shell's missing features as I can, but there is still much work to be done in order to compete against existing shell languages. The codebase should be much easier to read/manage now.

[brson]

Issue: Add a pure-Rust backend

[brson]

Issue: Update html_root_url attribute to point to https://docs.rs/tempdir/$version

Issue: Add keywords and categories to Cargo.toml

Issue: Add CI for Windows and Mac

Issue: Update examples to use `?`

[nasa42]

Let us know links to the issues that we should post.

[matthewkmayer]

Rusoto, the Rust AWS SDK, is looking for maintainers. If you're looking to learn more about Amazon Web Services, code generation in Rust or want to check out one of the bigger public code bases around (claim not validated in any manner), come check out the repository. The CONTRIBUTING file has instructions for getting started.

If documentation is more your bag, we've got https://rusoto.org/ which is a gitbook companion for the project. The source is on GitHub as a project under the Rusoto org on GitHub.

I'm available for mentoring.

[mmstick]

Basically, if there is an issue that does not have an assignee, we are seeking help for implementing that feature.

[nasa42]

I'd suggest creating a new issue looking for maintainers with information on how to contact and we'll link to that.

[matthewkmayer]

Thanks, I've added an issue: https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto/issues/593 .

[brson]

Issue: Add CI badges to Cargo.toml

Issue: Mention Default trait in the docs

Issue: Resolve clippy lints

Issue: Rename internal types to match the public types

Issue: Write usage examples

Issue: Document the GzBuilder panic cases

Issue: Document error conditions in "Errors" sections

Issue: Use distinct Flush types for Compress::compress vs Decompress::decompress

Issue: Publish CI badges for all Tier 1 platforms

Issue: Wire up rustdoc hyperlinks

Issue: Eagerly implement common traits

Issue: All public types should implement Debug

Issue: GzBuilder methods should take Into<Vec<u8>>

Issue: Clarify documentation of GzHeader::mtime

Issue: Method to get mtime of a GzHeader as a datetime

Issue: Explain what a gzip multistream means

Issue: Remove R: Read bounds on structs

Issue: Publish CI badges for all Tier 1 platforms

Issue: Include `categories` in Cargo.toml

Issue: Include `homepage` in Cargo.toml

Issue: Change Cargo.toml `documentation` to point to "https://docs.rs/lazy_static"

Issue: Set html_root_url crate attribute

[brson]

Issue: Error message when VS 2015 build tools exist but not the SDK needs to be better