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windows maintainers / developers wanted

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#4,466 opened on Mar 21, 2019

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Description

So, who wants to commit to develop, maintain, review windows related code?

There is some code already in master, more code is waiting in "windows" branch.

The main blockers to get more stuff into master are:

  • there need to be (windows) devs reviewing the already existing code before it gets into master
  • there need to be (windows) devs maintaining it in future and managing development of that part of borg - this is a long term thing, not a one time work.
  • stuff must be tested on windows. automated and likely sometimes also manual.
  • either windows branch must be brought into a better and reviewed state so it can be fully merged into master or smaller PRs could be made against master.
  • there should be an extension to our Vagrantfile so we can use vagrant to provision a windows VM for testing / running the tests locally / debugging independent of developer's base OS.

So whoever wants to help, please add a comment below and state how you can help.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Identify the current state of Windows support, set up a Vagrant based Windows testing environment, review the existing Windows branch, and create small PRs to merge changes into master.
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python
Domain
backend
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4
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Active
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10