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Open Issues
At the LF Summit, it was decided that this project should go ahead, with the cautionary note that a comprehensive tool will be a large task. The ideal would be to create an independent shell syntax parser, but in a pinch, a set of regular expressions covering the most common bash-isms should be sufficient.
Vision
We have application checkers now for C, C++, Perl, and Python, but none for shell scripts, which may be the most common scripts deployed. Furthermore, the popularity of bash often means that "bash-isms" creep into shell code that is shipped on Linux, because most developers assume that /bin/sh will be bash. This results in scripts which are not compliant with the LSB, which will break on Linux distributions using other LSB-compliant shells as /bin/sh, such as Ubuntu.
Milestones
A rough proposed schedule for this project. When we anticipate that we will reach certain milestones. Also, if the project has an absolutely-must-be-completed-by date, mention it here.
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Resources
No resources have been dedicated to this project.
Hardware
No hardware has been dedicated to this project.
Contacts
List of people who are working on the project and their roles.
| Name | Role |
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| Jeff Licquia | Project Owner |
Tasks
Tasks will map many-to-one to milestones. Tasks are specific actionable work items that need to be completed in order to reach a milestone
Active
| Task | Owner | Status | Outlook |
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Completed
| Task | Owner | Status | Outlook |
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Pending
Tasks that can't be scheduled yet because they are waiting on some other task or external entity
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Comments
The last word on this project, from the LF Summit, came from Alexey of ISPRAS. Is ISPRAS prepared to do the work for this project?
Jeff Licquia 13:59, 17 April 2008 (PDT)