Grails Engineering Meeting Notes (06 03 2021)

Date: 06/03/2021

Attendees

Working on getting Grails 5 RC1 done
- Updating Spring to 5.3.7 and Spring boot to 2.5
- Everything seems OK on all of the projects
- We may also want to update to Gradle 6.8
Will be updating Grails Plugin Profiles to make some changes around publishing
Planning on releasing another milestone this week
The only concern I have is updating to Gradle 6.8
- David: We got a question about Gradle 7 on the town hall
  - Puneet: We can try with Gradle 7 after 6.8, but I'm concerned about the work that might be caused from the provider base plugin
  - https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/nebula.provided-base
  - David: I would not bring in Gradle 7 if it is going to cause a big delay
We may be updating the webdriver dependencies as well

It looks like the fixes I applied for GSP worked
- Let me know after Grails 5 when we start the improvements to GSP, I have some ideas there
Puneet: I saw you responded on this UrlMapping issue
- https://github.com/grails/grails-core/issues/11709
- David: This was more of a clarification to the person that created it about how it works
Puneet: How is the Spring Loaded effort going?
- David: I haven't heard from Andy for a while, but I think it might be best for us to just fork the project
- Bobby: I agree, he seems really busy
- David: I think we can just fork it and publish it
- Bobby: He did merge your PR back in April
- Puneet: Have you made any progress on Java 11?
- David: In order for it to be compatible there is some extra bytecode that needs to be added for Java 11
- Puneet: Do you think we should target that for Grails 5?
- David: I think we can at least support Java 8 for Grails 5 and we can look at potentially supporting Java 11