Zerocopy's Hacktoberfest: Phantom types! 👻 Unsafe code! 🔪 Transmutation! 🧙 Oh my!

[jswrenn]

Zerocopy is the crate that makes zero-cost memory manipulation effortless. We write the unsafe so you don't have to — until now! This Hacktoberfest, we've curated a terrifying tour of insidious issues for which we need your urgent help:

• 😯 Easy
  • Prevent panics statically #202
  • Use kani-github-action for Kani in CI. #423
  • [CI] Deduplicate actions/cache directives #340
• 👻 Medium
  • Add positive and negative trait impl tests for SIMD types #130
  • Implement traits for tuples #274
  • [CI] Refactor version comparison logic in check_versions job #307
  • [CI] Check semver compatibility with all target platforms, not just the host platform #357
  • Use cargo-semver-checks to make sure derive feature doesn't change API surface #422
  • Verify that all-jobs-succeeded CI job depends on all other jobs #444
  • Track code coverage metrics #453
• 😱 Hard
  • Test the output of zerocopy-derive #367
  • Annotate all unsafe blocks with a safety comment and prevent regressions #429

We've tagged these issues for Hacktoberfest because they are reasonably self-contained, and should be approachable for moderately experienced Rust programmers. This is your chance to immortalize your deeds — zerocopy is at the icy heart of some of the world's largest Rust codebases!

Should that lamentable list not frighten you enough, stay tuned! Our mad scientists are busy stitching together undead horrors that will chill you to your bones!