CLI/API working group meeting #5

Date: 30/10/2024
Topics/Problem statements/questions/requests:

• Announcing the website where users can find the outcomes of the working group meetings:
  • https://intersectmbo.github.io/workgroup-info/
  • Action item: Add a column for outcomes or decisions taken.
• Command line reestructuring
  • To enhance the user experience, the query, build, and certificate creation commands could automatically check for a live node in the background. If a node is detected, the CLI would fetch relevant information, such as the current era or required protocol parameters, to assist the user. This approach would simplify the process for less experienced users while still allowing advanced users to manually specify details when they prefer full control.
  • Continue with the refactoring work as planned.
  • Action items:
    • Architecture Decision Record for the new structure
    • Architecture Decision Record for the deprecation of commands.
    • Write an example of the query the era behind the scenes approach for a query command. We need to figure out whiich oine is a good example.
    • Implement stake-address registration-certificate with this approach.
    • In both cases we want user feedback before merging to main
• Brief discussion about Txid output -> https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-cli/pull/925 what people think?
  • Majority of the atendees think it is useful. Altho we should reimplement so that the output is in json not plain text.
  • Action item: reimplement so that the output is json not just plain text.