Grails Engineering Meeting Notes (01 28 2021)

Date: 01/28/2021

Attendees

• Puneet Behl
• James Kleeh
• Jason Schindler

Agenda

• Current Development Activities
• Open Discussion

Current Development Activities

Puneet

• Yesterday released 5.0.0 M1
• Next in line in 5.0.0 RC1
  • Will include the latest version of Spock and Micronaut
  • There are also some minor issues to take a look at it
  • This will likely be available next week
• Releasing Grails 4.0.7 today with some patch dependency upgrades and minor bug fixes
• I need to update our roadmap to include details for upcoming releases
• I'm thinking about pulling Grails GSP out of Grails Core
  • James: That was attempted a while ago and we ended up keeping it in there
  • James: There were a lot of things that were interdependent
  • James: It was a while ago, and I don't really remember the details
• Does anyone have ideas for upcoming Grails 5 minor release features? You can think about it and get back to me.
  • James: I don't have specific ideas, but one thing that you could do is go back through the old issues and look for ideas there

James

• Have we recently discussed refactoring Grails to work on top of Micronaut?
  • James: Changing Grails to be built on top of Micronaut will help us maintain less code
  • Puneet: If we move to Micronaut, that will be a significant change
  • Puneet: We should think about how to break this into chunks so that we can move in pieces
  • James: It would definitely be a multi-step migration
  • Puneet: Whatever we do, we need to have a clear migration path