Cleanups Complete
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Well, we’re officially back to working around the clock. After spending some time optimising my workflow, I’ve been busy getting the entire codebase cleaned up, so we can begin working towards an MVP.
Codebase hygiene
Since Friday, I’ve been working extensively on cleaning up the codebase for the following projects:
- boulder
- moss
- moss-core
- moss-format
As it now stands, 1 lint issue (a non-issue, really) exists across all 4 projects. A plethora of issues have been resolved, ranging from endian correctness in the format to correct idiomatic D-lang integration and module naming.
Bored
Granted, cleanups aren’t all that sexy. Peter has been updating many parts of the bootstrap project, introducing systemd 247.3, LLVM 11.0.1, etc. We now have all 3 stages building correctly again for the x86_64 target.
And then….
Yikes, tough audience! So we’ve formed a new working TODO which will make its way online as a public document at some point. The first stage, cleanups, is done. Next is to restore feature development, working specifically on the extraction and install routines. From there, much work and cadence will be unlocked, allowing us to work towards an MVP.
You keep saying MVP..
I know, it makes me feel all … cute and professional. At the moment we’re cooking up a high level description of how an MVP demonstration could be deployed. While most of the features are ambiguous, our current ambition is to deploy a preinstalled QCOW2 Serpent OS image as a prealpha to help validate moss/boulder/etc.
It’ll be ugly. Likely slow. Probably insecure as all hell. But it’ll be something. It’ll allow super basic interaction with moss, and a small collection of utilities that can be used in a terminal environment. No display whatsoever. That can come in a future iteration :)
ETA? Definitely not by the 28th of February. When it’s done.