hpc / hpc/mpifileutils

options review

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C
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200
Forks
85
Avg merge
3d 21h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

related to #272 , I would like to improve the way tool options are documented and validated. There are a number of activities to make this happen:

  • validate the tools by hand, just to make sure our release is good.
  • create developer documentation around the canonical place for option documentation (man page, help text, other).
  • create a tool to audit the man page, help text, and getopt parsing.
  • add this tool to the CI tests.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with related issue #272 and inspect the existing man pages, help text, and getopt parsing for the tools. The work is done when the canonical option documentation is documented, an audit tool compares these sources, and that audit runs in CI.

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Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
ci-cd, documentation, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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