VGO

Table of Contents

• Initial reference paper
• Issue tracker
• 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.

Issue tracker

The Go issue tracker will be used to track bugs / feature requests for vgo. The issues will need to start with x/vgo for now. 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
• 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