Grails Engineering Meeting Notes (09 25 2020)

Date: 09/25/2020

Attendees

• Puneet Behl
• Jeff Brown
• David Estes
• James Kleeh
• Jason Schindler
• Bobby Warner

Agenda

• Engineering Meeting Kickoff
• Current Development Activities
• Discussion: Meeting Time and Cadence
• Open Discussion

Engineering Meeting Kickoff

Jason

• Thank you everyone for attending
• The purpose of this meeting is to provide a regular forum for discussing current activities and topics around Grails framework development
• Not open to public without an invite in order to keep the group small enough for discussion
• Will record and publish meeting notes for public review

Current Development Activities

Puneet

• Wrapping up Grails 4.1.0.M2
  • This includes other modules besdies Grails Core like GORM
  • Also includes the Embedded MongoDB Plugin
• Will review the Vue.js profile
• After Grails 4.1.0.M2, focus will switch to Grails 4.0.5

Bobby

• Reviewing plugins, PRs, and issues to see if they are still relevant
• Working on Spring Security Core
  • It would be nice to get this updated to the latest Spring Security version
• Database Migration Plugin issue and PR reviews

David

• Continued work and attention on Asset Pipeline
• Currently working on Grails GSP
• Also reviewing issues and PRs for relevance
• Stated that Grails 4.0.4 does not work with Windows. Grails 4.0.5 release is required to fix Windows support
  • Believes the fix has already been made and just requires a release
• Updates to Spring Loaded with feedback and assistance from Andy (the original maintainer)

James

• Recently released Micronaut 2.0 which included updates for Groovy 3
  • Will be able to be used with Grails 4.1

Discussion: Meeting Time and Cadence

• Group agreed that most weeks Thursday at 8a CT is a good time to meet
  • Not everyone is expected to attend every discussion
  • Time will be adjusted as needed
• Group agreed that the meeting should be invite only with notes published for public review
  • A mechanism should be put in place to provide people a way to request an invite
  • Notes will initially be published to grails-core wiki
• Group agreed to a weekly meeting
  • We should put an agenda together prior to meeting and determine if we should meet
    • We will use GitHub team discussions to put the agenda together

Open Discussion

Jeff

• Starting in October, OCI will have a quarterly Groovy / Grails / Micronaut town hall meeting
  • David has been asked to join for the first episode in October
• Town Hall is one example of how OCI is providing more visibility to and increasing communication channels with the community on current activities within 2GM.
  • Includes who all is actively involved like David and Bobby