futureverse / futureverse/future
Boilerplate for community-contributed future backends
- Dominant language
- R
- Stars
- 1k
- Forks
- 92
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
I have a strong personal interest in contributing to new `future` backends, particularly `clustermq` (https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future/issues/204) and AWS Batch (https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future/issues/423, https://github.com/wlandau/targets/issues/152). It would be great if there were an automated way to create boilerplate structure (similar to `usethis::create_package()` or `rstantools::rstan_create_package()`) and allow devs like me to easily plug in what it means for a future to initialize, resolve, and return a value. Combined with [`future.tests`](https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future.tests), I think this could be a powerful way to encourage new community-contributed backends.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the future backend initialization, resolution, and value-return entry points, then compare them with the future.tests project and the linked clustermq and AWS Batch discussions. Done would mean a defined, automated boilerplate workflow that lets contributors create and implement new community backends.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- developer-experience, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100