go-hep + goldb contributions

Inspiration

I wanted to contribute to science.

What it does

Improve code quality to ease access to CERN projects for other external contributors.

How we built it

go build ./...

Challenges we ran into

The testsuite of the goldb project was not working. One contributor had submitted a fix but it had not been reviewed before I called the maintainers.

I have implemented CI based on GitHub Actions, but the goldb testsuite doesn't pass on Windows.

The code in the goldb project is not idiomatic. Cleanup was (and is still) necessary before contributing significant features.

I started implementing CI on GitHub Actions for go-hep, but so far the CI fails and I haven't finished the work.

There was too much low hanging fruits (minor contributions) to submit before doing advanced Go contributions such as Go using generics. I had to wait for review and merge of such contributions before.

The contributor process of the go-hep project (pull request required on the hep-license project) was unusual and unexpected: it wasn't mentioned on the Go Hack rules site.