Discussions

• How to best spend the JAX 2007 money prize
• Status of the Eclipse plugin

Groovy gatherings

• Groovy code camp: bi-annual Europe and US places
• Summer of code
• Leverage students end year's projects

Documentation and specification

• xdocs, tests -> text (GLS) or the reverse
• formal documentation
• http://groovyuserguide.org/ kind of site
• find an outline

1.1.x / 2.x branches

• a 1.2 and/or 1.1.1 release
• branch after 1.1-rc-2
• trunk for contributions
• branch for experimental
• convention: 20071231 for sharing personal branches
• 20071231-experiment-MC2

SVN moves

• move modules & IDE plugins to the top-level
• have Scott involved for moving Eclipse plug at the top-level
• Eclipse continuous integration

Packaging / modularity

• sugest package groovyx
• post 1.1 activity, possibly 1.2
• list
• ant builder
• Swing builder
• Gant
• GroovyDoc
• Groovlets
• JMX
• GroovyTestCases
• CLI tools
• CLI builder
• Console
• Groovy SQL
• BSF
• XML builders, slurper, markup
• Ant tasks
• Templates
• have a proper GEP for seperations

Breaking change 1.1 / 2.0

• mention in the release notes in 1.1 that users have to recompile their code against the new runtime
• find a good proposal as a minimum for 2.0
• provide good error messages if people use a older version of Groovy
• static initializers, deprecation exceptions
• no compatibility for 1.1 / 2.0, but make sure it works for 2.0 / 2.x

Dependencies

• ASM 3
• Antlr 3 (lower priority than MC2)
• Java 5
• trunk will switch to Java 5, but 1.1 is the last quaranteed version to run on 1.4
• review the code base to see where we can modify to use Java 5 classes and methods, generics
• stay to 1.4 bytecode
• Have a 1.4 compatible version
• Retroweaver / Retrotranslator version for compatibility distribution
• use generics when it makes sense

Follow the work on invokeDynamic, and potentially have a prototype

Customize Groovy truth

• possible implementation with an interface

No Reverse asType

Keep DGM as fat as it is

Performance

• In the CI, add a script to parse the XML, and collect the historical unit test times executions

Groovydoc

• cross-linkage between classes
• document DGM
• document EMCs, categories, closures as properties, properties section

Multiple assignment

• syntax def a,b,c = someMethodReturningList() <- c gets the third or the rest, null for the rest
• keep it simple

Class-scoped use directive / mixin mechanism

• To be discussed further on the mailing-lists
• Do we go with a class-scoped use directive mechanism?
• Further discuss on the lists how which syntax to take
• closer to the concept of mixins
• Try have a GEP proposal
• Per-thread EMCs like category
• Keep in mind: difference between script and class, between transparently or explicitely/declaratively applied
• Convention / magic packages / James' proposal / EMC script initialization
• Activation through GroovySystem

Anonymous inner classes & nested classes

• changes to GroovyObject
• problem with private property access
• getProperty() to be removed, or shouldn't have first shot

Stale modules communication

• SWTBuilder (improve communication, what's broken/working)

AST transformations / mutators

• Examples
• @BoundProperty macro
• then: when: à la RSpec
• DSL use cases
• GEP to be fleshed out

Static Groovy

• Discussion to be continued
• GEP to be fleshed out