Table of Contents

• Initial reference paper
• Comment Threads
• Blog posts
• Videos
• Questions

This document collects thoughts and notes about vgo from the Gophers #vgo channel. Invites to Gophers Slack from here.

Initial reference paper

The initial paper can be read here https://research.swtch.com/vgo.

The reference implementation is done here: https://github.com/golang/vgo.

The Go issue tracker will be used to track bugs / feature requests for vgo. The issues will need to start with x/vgo so that they can be automatically categorized. You can read the existing issues here.

Comment Threads

These are threads that have been created from the initial reference manifest for vgo:

• golang-nuts ML: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/jFPz5yZCPcQ
• golang-dev ML: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/MNQwgYHMEcY
• HackerNews posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=swtch.com
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/domain/research.swtch.com/

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Blog posts

• Thoughts on vgo and dep
• Exploring vgo
• Semantic Import Versioning in the wild (blogpost)

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Videos

Building Predictability into Your Pipeline With Russ Cox, Jess Frazelle, Sam Boyer, Pete Garcin.

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Questions

Question	Answer
Hitting GitHub API rate limits?	Create a token and add it to .netrc, see related issue
How does vgo handles dependencies of older, discarded versions https://gophers.slack.com/archives/C9BMAAFFB/p1519493604000033	https://github.com/zeebo/vgo-test-version-selection