Foundation

Technology Advisory Board Meeting, March 21, 2021

Meeting Attendance:

• Jeff Scott Brown - Grails Foundation, co-founder and Director; Grails co-founder; Grails Practice Lead at Object Computing
• Puneet Behl - Grails Product Development Lead at Object Computing
• David Estes - Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Morpheus Data; Creator of the Grails Asset-Pipeline
• James Kleeh - Micronaut Product Development Lead at Object Computing
• Jen Wiese - Object Computing, OSS Community Engagement Manager

Not in Attendance:

• Graeme Rocher - Grails co-founder; Architect at Oracle

The Meeting Was Led By: Jeff Scott Brown

Agenda:

• Welcome and Agenda
• Foundation Community Updates
• Technical Discussion
• Open Discussion

Welcome (JSB)

• Feel free to send in topics to discuss prior to meeting at [email protected]
• All input and ideas are welcome
• We want to capitalize on the group of folks we have here, so please reach out

Foundation Community Updates (JW)

• As a not-for-profit organization, the Grails Foundation relies on the financial support from our amazing community of generous sponsors.

  • Corporate and Community sponsorship opportunities currently available
  • We have a handful of Community All Star Sponsors
  • Currently OCI is the only Corporate Sponsor, but working to add more in the near term
  • New Foundation pages coming to grails.org soon

• The Foundation will be delivering events moving forward: training workshops, webinars, publications, and other online community events

Technical Discussion (PB, All)

• Planning for Grails 5.0 GA release in May

• Grails 5.0 GA will include the following core dependencies:

  • Grails Testing Support 2.2.0
  • Groovy 3.0.7
  • Spock 2.0-M5-groovy-3.0
  • Micronaut 2.4
  • Micronaut for Spring 3.0.0
  • Hibernate Core 5.4.30
  • GORM 7.1.0
  • Spring Framework 5.3.5
  • Spring Boot 2.4.4
  • Gradle 6.5

• Spring Loaded Java 8 support has been improved for Grails 5

• David is upgrading the Gradle build for Spring Loaded to facilitate the release of changes we have made

• David is exploring improving Java 11 support for Spring Loaded

• Plan is to have Grails 5.x support JDK versions 8-16

• Plan is to have Grails 4.x support JDK versions 8-11

• Grails releases will continue to be published to Maven Central

• Plugin Portal is now using static metadata

Open Discussion (All)

• Meeting notes will be published
• Thank you to everyone who attended. Your participation and time is very much appreciated