Weekly Report #01
2020-09-10

Note: This post was first published as a Slack note.

This is the first weekly report I write for this project, here or anywhere else, and I'm happy to begin this tradition.

New Release (v0.18.0)🔗

• Improved support for JetBrains IDEs (specifically PHPStorm): Now avatar install generates wrapper shell scripts that can be used by IDEs to use dockerized interpreters (like PHP or Python) without having to create a subshell with avatar shell or modify the environment with source <(avatar export-env).
• Fixed OCI (Docker) images generation, that were broken after a regression.
• Improved documentation, clarified minor details.

Work in Progress (in dev branch, not released)🔗

• More documentation improvements:
  • Added new informative badges to the README.md file.
  • Added a "Community" section, linking the Discord space & the Twitter official account.
  • New minor clarifications on the "How to install" section.

Community🔗

• Started collaboration with Project Unicorn :smile: .
• Created new Discord workspace!
• We have a first external contributor (work still in progress on error handling, but quite promising 🙂)

Near Future Plans🔗

• Website preparation ( avatar-cli.dev ).
• There are some ongoing discussions with a user on how to use docker-compose configurations to make possible orchestrating complex integration tests with Avatar-CLI. This same functionality was implemented in the old privative predecessor of Avatar-CLI (that was written using Bash), but it cannot be directly ported as it is, since it requires more generality & guarantees of forward-compatibility.