Hey folks, we’ve hit a nice little milestone in the development of the Bristlemouth ecosystem. It’s a small thing, but in my view, worth highlighting!
It’s common practice in open source software, as you build up a backlog of publicly visible bugs and feature requests, to have a subset of them tagged as “good first issue”. There are lots of people out there who love contributing to open source projects but don’t know where to start. These “good first issue” items serve as a friendly doorway into a community.
Over in the Dev Kit Support category, @samkitbothra asked a very reasonable question about how to write files on the SD card without timestamps added at the start of every line.
That’s not actually possible today, but it’s a feature we should obviously have! It’s also not terribly difficult to add. So, in responding, I wrote up this issue: Enable writing files with bm_fprintf without inserted timestamp log line headers · Issue #154 · bristlemouth/bm_protocol · GitHub
I tagged it as a “good first issue” and put some extra effort into walking through an explanation of roughly how it should be implemented.
I look forward to welcoming many more contributors to Bristlemouth in the coming months and years. Here’s to the first of many “good first issues”! 