Launch tracking

[ErikSchierboom]

Overall documentation for building an Exercism track lives at https://exercism.org/docs/building/tracks/new

This issue helps keep track of the tasks you're working on towards launching this track.

The next steps are:

• Join our community
• Select programming language variant (if applicable)
• Select testing framework
• Add the first exercise
• Setup Continuous Integration
• Add initial exercises
• Build test runner
• Configure tooling
  • Lines of Code Counter
  • Snippet Extractor
  • Exercism CLI
• Prepare for launch
  • Request Track Icon
  • Add Track Docs
  • Add Exercise Docs
  • Add Code snippet
  • Update metadata
• Test track
• Find Maintainers
• Launch!
• Enable syntax highlighting
  • Static syntax highlighting (optional)
  • Dynamic syntax highlighting (optional)
• Implement additional tooling
  • Build Representer (optional)
  • Build Analyzer (optional)
  • Build Test Generator (optional)
• Prepare for open source contributions from strangers

Once you've finished a task, you can check them in this list.

Questions

Please ask if you have any questions or if anything is confusing!

[vaeng]

I added a PR for the exercism CLI: exercism/cli#1183

[ErikSchierboom]

@vaeng I'll do the lines of code counter PR

[ErikSchierboom]

I'll do the metadata PR too

[vaeng]

icon was requested under: exercism/website-icons#184

[vaeng]

I'll look into syntax highlighting
Edit: No, that is not a thing I can do on the side for the moment.

[ErikSchierboom]

Lines of code counter has been updated

[ErikSchierboom]

Opened a PR for adding key features: #41

[ErikSchierboom]

@vaeng I've added the track to the DB which means that maintainers could start testing the track at https://exercism.org/tracks/uiua. Was there anything we need to do before they can test? I know you were looking at the syntax highlighting but that can happen in parallel.

[vaeng]

Wow, that was speedy progress! With more than 20 exercises implemented and more to come, it is a promising start.
Testing the website does not give me the web-editor. Is there something else we've got to change for that to work? I would not release it for testing without an online edtior.

Syntax highlighting would be great, but I have no idea where to start and expected a more streamlined process. So I don't mind if someone more experienced would take over.

[ErikSchierboom]

We need @iHiD to run terraform now that exercism/terraform#131 is merged. After that is run, I can enable the test runner in the config.json.

[vaeng]

I asked Jeremy for the terraforming and it should be done by now. The PR for activation is #62

[vaeng]

Should we clean up the repository by auto-deleting merged branches and remove those we have merged so far?

[ErikSchierboom]

Yes please

[ErikSchierboom]

I removed the old branches. How do I enable auto-deleting them?

[ErikSchierboom]

I'm working on a highlightjs plugin: https://github.com/exercism/highlightjs-uiua

[vaeng]

I removed the old branches. How do I enable auto-deleting them?

It's in the settings: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/configuring-pull-request-merges/managing-the-automatic-deletion-of-branches

[ErikSchierboom]

Thanks! I've checked that settings.

Highlightjs support is coming: exercism/website#7161

[vaeng]

An error occurred while running your tests. This might mean that there was an issue in our infrastructure, or it might mean that you have something in your code that's causing our systems to break.
Please check your code, and if nothing seems to be wrong, try running the tests again.

I just tried the hello world exercise in the online-editor and there is something amiss. Did I set the time limit too low?

[ErikSchierboom]

Did I set the time limit too low?

No, that can't be it, as that's only cosmetic. I think I just need ti redeploy.

[ErikSchierboom]

Try again!

[ErikSchierboom]

Next up: a codemirror plugin https://github.com/exercism/codemirror-lang-uiua

[vaeng]

Try again!

[vaeng]

Static syntax highlighting looks nice. Thanks :)

[vaeng]

The default icon is correct in most places but it fails in the recent tracks preview 😕

[ErikSchierboom]

That's something to post on the forum if you please.

[vaeng]

Should we go public when the codemirror work is done and the icon is added?

[ErikSchierboom]

I think so yes! I'll work on the codemirrror stuff tomorrow

[ErikSchierboom]

exercism/website#7167 (should be merged soon)

[ErikSchierboom]

🥳