January 18, 2022

tachyonics · 2022-02-16T01:22:47.479Z

@0xTim to chat with the various "Install Swift" GitHub actions authors about collaborating
@tomerd to follow up on status of docker images
@tomerd to move VSCode extension CI forward
@tomerd to take on moving SwiftPrometheus to the swift-server organization
All to check out SPM command plugins pitch
@0xTim to follow up on potential issues for large collections in MySQLNIO; @fabianfett will be the review manager
@graskind to put up a SQLiteNIO proposal PR as well
@tomerd setup 2021 retrospective and 2022 goals for next week
@0xTim to find place to server guides to highlight special cases (libcurl and libxml) for static linking
frameworks to link to server guides when possible
@varland to investigate if there is something AWS can do to improve discoverability to AWS guides related to using Swift on AWS
@fabianfett to follow up on Reload Swift Package when new file creation is indicated by DidChangeWatchedFileNotification by ahoppen · Pull Request #443 · apple/sourcekit-lsp · GitHub
@ktoso to investigate moving test utils from swift-metrics-extras to swift-metrics and a create blog post.

Add support for Swift Package Manager by mattt · Pull Request #3772 · dependabot/dependabot-core · GitHub is there anything we can do to push this through
What is happening to the package registry work?
Update dev container for swift by damuellen · Pull Request #1238 · microsoft/vscode-dev-containers · GitHub
Instructions on swift.org for installing on linux are not up to date
Swift presence on twitter; anything the sswg can do? Does the community have topics that could be linked to. Could link to the upcoming post from @kmahar about using async/await with mongodb.

Static linking decision is currently with the core team
@0xTim Lack of arm docker images increasingly noticeable due to VSCode extension
@0xTim will push SwiftPrometheus maintainer search on Vapor discord if there's a forums post to link to; currently blocked on repo move
@0xTim Next steps for VSCode extension known and defined
Static linking on linux; should raise issues at bugs.org. Two special cases; neither libcurl or libxml will be statically linked.
MQTTNIO proposal accepted at sandbox level.
@fabianfett: there is room to improve Swift Frameworks/Components ranking in search engine results. @0xTim Vapor will be getting a website overhaul to improve discoverability
Re Paywalled! the only tutorial out there on how to use Swift on AWS EC2, @0xTim mentioned they want to overhaul that chapter anyway. @fabianfett; deployment steps should be easy with docker and static linking.
Discovery of SPM packages in edit mode: there is an upcoming pitch
GitHub - apple/swift-metrics-extras has been released
from @patrick; Swiftly is almost ready, he is returning to it after the New Years break