This project is a reimaginging of Doug Finke's NameIt project with a more specific focus. While the initial intent was to simply contribute to his own project, Doug is presently busy with other items in his life, so this offshoot was born. While this project will no doubt leverage some of the ideas, and possibly even some code snippets, from Doug's work, the intent is to build a ground up rework, with more focus on the core goal... to generate generic usable data, rather than ames.
- Installation process At present, installation requires first downloading a copy of the repo, creation of the appropriate module directory (DataGen) and version subfolder, then copy in the plugins and src folders, as well as the DataGen psd1 and psm1 files. This module will hopefully be released to the PowerShell gallery at some later point.
- Software dependencies All dependencies are included as part of the plugins folder content, and at this time is limited to the PSFramework module, which provides the underlying framework for the core module logging and other features
- Latest releases This is the initial release, though do keep an eye on the ChangeLog for future updates.
There are many ways in which you can participate in this project, for example:
- Submit bugs and feature requests, and help us verify as they are checked in
- Review source code changes
- Review the documentation and make pull requests for anything from typos to additional and new content
If you are interested in fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base, please see the document Contributing to DataGen, which covers the following:
- Coding guidelines
- Submitting pull requests
- Finding an issue to work on