[mosh-devel] Working towards a mosh 1.4 release

[Alex Chernyakhovsky]

Hi folks,

I wanted to give everyone an update on the progress that has been made
on a mosh release so far. Our industrious group of volunteers has
worked through the spreadsheet and identified 1 PR that needs fuzzing
and 6 PRs that need additional testing. We've merged PRs for
generating coverage reports
(https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/1173) and fuzzing
infrastructure (https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/1193).

Next steps are now to work through these remaining actions items
identified in the review, as well as hook up the fuzzing targets to
OSS-Fuzz for continuous execution, and then it will be time to release
a release candidate.

Sincerely,
-Alex

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 8:53 PM Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've done some preliminary work to see what it would take to produce a
> (tentatively) mosh 1.4.0 release. Wolfgang has kindly kicked off the
> process and set up Github Actions for CI, replacing the Travis CI we
> had before. I've followed that up with a PR [1] to add support for
> generating coverage reports, and run it at head so far [2].
>
> There have been approximately 100 commits merged since mosh 1.3.2 was
> released in 2017. Our goal is to review each of these commits and
> either
>
> a) conclude it's good as-is
> b) it needs improved test coverage
> c) it needs a fuzz test
> d) something else entirely
>
> To help with this, I've produced a spreadsheet [3] using `
> git log mosh-1.3.2..master~3 --oneline
> --pretty='=HYPERLINK("https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/commit/%H",
> "%h 🔗")|%s'` and have added columns for folks to indicate they've
> reviewed a commit and what the outcome is. The sheet is
> world-readable, but please ping me for editor access if you're going
> to volunteer to review some of these commits.
>
> Once we've reviewed these commits and added any tests / fuzz tests as
> needed, we should be ready to make a preview release. My goal is to
> upload this to Debian experimental and encourage folks to test once
> it's there.
>
> At this time, I don't think we should be merging any of the
> outstanding ~40 PRs unless they're fixing outstanding bugs. Any
> features still under review should be deferred until after the 1.4
> release.
>
> Please let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions.
>
> Sincerely,
> -Alex
>
> [1] https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/1173
> [2] https://web.mit.edu/achernya/Public/mosh-1.3.2-105-gdbe419d-coverage/
> [3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GYlnYD8OaoINDo8ZZTwrZGRR3rEgtMGB3_38i6AcMQ8/edit#gid=0