Foundation

Technology Advisory Board Meeting, December 17, 2021

Meeting Attendance:

• Puneet Behl - Grails Product Development Lead, Object Computing, Inc.
• Paul King – Groovy Project Development Lead, Object Computing, Inc.
• James Kleeh - Micronaut Product Development Lead, Object Computing, Inc.
• Graeme Rocher - Grails co-founder; Architect, Oracle
• Jason Schindler – Partner and Groovy, Grails, and Micronaut Team Manager, Object Computing Inc.
• Jen Wiese - Grails Foundation Community Engagement Manager, Object Computing, Inc.

Not in Attendance:

• David Estes - Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Morpheus Data; Creator of the Grails Asset-Pipeline

The Meeting Was Led By: Jen Wiese

Agenda:

• Welcome and Introduction of New Members
• Foundation Goals
• Technology Advisory Board Goals
• Review Communication
• Fondation Community Updates
• Tech Talk: Grails Update
• Sponsorships
• Open Discussion

Welcome and Introduction of New Members

• New TAB Members: Jason Schindler and Paul King
• Covered internal communication channels
• Feel free to send in topics to discuss prior to meeting; all input and ideas are welcome
• We want to capitalize on the group of folks we have here, so please reach out

Foundation Goals

• Ensure technical innovation and advancement of the Grails framework as a free and open public use software development framework for a growing global community
• Evangelize and promote the Grails framework as a leading technology in the JVM space
• Build and support an ecosystem of complementary documentation, functionality, and services

Technology Advisory Board Goals

• Provide input to help guide the direction of the Framework
• Represent perspectives from various areas of the industry
• Ensure the Framework continues to reflect and serve its diverse and growing user community
• Your insights are a significant part of why the foundation exists!

Foundation Community Updates

• Excited about recent investment in the Foundation with the Developer Advocate role that Sergio is filling
• Representing developer interests while engaging with our communities to advocate for the Grails framework
• Should be seeing a dedicated Grails YouTube Channel for all of the on-demand content for the community coming soon
• Ramping back up our Quickcasts, which are short technical tutorials (which will be available on demand), starting out with a series of introductory content
• Expecting to see more technical content published in blog posts and guides to help support our user community
• Continue with live public webinars and private tech talks for clients
• Continue with live, public and private training events
• Receive requests for these events regularly
• Just completed a 12-hour (4 morning) public, online training event with 30 participants!
• The Foundation will be delivering events moving forward: training workshops, webinars, publications, and other online community events

Technical Discussion

• Planning for Grails 6
  • Minimum JDK support - minimum version at least 11? 17?
    • Move from 8
  • Early Grails 6 release? Support for JDK11
    • Groovy 4 - ready early 2022
    • More Micronaut integration
  • Spring release Q4 2022
  • Possible Grails 7 that would support JDK17 when released
  • Support timeline for Grails 5 after release of Grails 6
• Grails and Microanut Integration
  • Improved configuration integration between Grails and Micronaut
    • https://github.com/grails/grails-core/issues/12082
  • Investigate the use of Micronaut server runtimes
  • Grails servlet APIs
    • Servlet filters
    • Tracing
    • Metrics
    • Swagger
  • Investigate use of GSP outside of Grails

Grails Framework Updates

• Grails 5.0.0 (4 Oct)
• Grails 5.0.1 (4 Nov)
• Grails 4.0.13 (23 Nov)
• Grails 5.0.2(26 Nov)
• Grails 5.0.3 (14 Dec)
• Grails 5.1.0 (Today/Tomorrow)
• Grails Database Migration 4.0.0-RC3
• Spring Security Core Plugin (Next)
• Leveling-up Grails CLI (Next)
• Consolidating Grails Plugin from different Github repos

Tech Talk

• Minimum JDK support for Grails 6
• Grails + Micronaut future

Foundation Sponsors

• As a not-for-profit organization, the Grails Foundation relies on the financial support from our amazing community of generous sponsors.
  • Corporate Sponsorships
  • Community Sponsorships
• Review current sponsors
• Please let us know if there is anyone that would like to learn more about the Grails Foundation and how they can support the Framework and become a corporate sponsor.

Open Discussion

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