Steering Committee Meeting Notes

07/20/2016

Java8
- Good progress in adding support.
- Need more tests for Java8: Soliciting contributions from community.
GWT 2.8
- Main criteria: Get new Guava working with GWT 2.8 before releasing 2.8.
Github issues
- Being used regularly
- Thomas is driving a plan to handle this better. Will wait for this to be finalized.
Refresh of beta
- Check how much work is left to be done to get guava building before deciding on this.
- If 2.8 RC1 doesn�t look imminent, put out a new beta.

GWT 2.8 Status:

JDT updated to Java8
Build server updated to Java8
Maintainers need to submit patches that were waiting for the above updates
Plan:
- Get things checked in by next week, followed by verification.
- Daniel will cut 2.8 RC1 likely toward end of Feb.
- Testing: Please test JsInterop to flush out further bugs.

No quorum, we only have 4 people show up. May want to plan a follow-up meeting. Bhaskar will ask SC members if they want one.
GWT 2.8
- Beta version is working for RH.
- Working on fixing Interop bugs, should be getting close to the end
- Memory problem with JDT, now down to 1.5x memory usage compared to earlier.
- Plan to do RC1 once interop problems are fixed.

GWT 2.8
- Plan to create an RC1 on Monday, Nov 2.
- Daniel will cut RC1 and make it available for testing to volunteers.
- Plan to have two weeks for testing, Daniel will put out a call for volunteers.
- JDT has a bug with memory use & Java8, this would be a problem for large apps.
- Direct the community to up-vote the bug.
- Plan to have final release in early December.
GWT Q&A
- Christian - Planning to host GWT Q&A
- Looking for volunteers who can participate.
GWT course
- ArcBees plans to have on-line courses for GWT.
GWT issues on github
- how are issues assigned to maintainers? We have many issues that are not being looked at.
- Thomas: plan to write up a proposal , discuss with Bhaskar

Dev mode discussion
- Daniel is migrating test cases to compile-mode, no more need to support dev-mode within Google.
- Since 2.8 is a compatible release, removing dev-mode will go against what we said earlier.
- People using 2.7 are still using dev mode, super dev mode is just barely working.
- Daniel: make compile-test default in 2.8,
  - Also let people know what limitations come with JsInterop and dev-mode.
- Drop it in trunk after 2.8.
GWT 2.8:
- Main missing feature is JsInterop
  - Expectation is that this will be complete by end of Sept.
- Plan to release after JsInterop is done. Will accept Java8 patches from community, but those are not blockers for right now.
Update on new compiler prototype:
- Still working through compilation of Java features.
- Plan is to have it capable of building complete apps by the end of the year.

Agenda:

2.8 and follow-up:

See meet-up vidoes for details.
GWT 2.8: 90% done. mainly waiting for Interop to finish
- Christian: waiting for jsinterop bug fixes
- GSS migration done for all of Google apps
  - Fixed a few small bugs
  - External folks can use a tool to convert CSS files to GSS: need to finish up this tool.
- Java8 emulation patches - need to get these in
  - Bhaskar to ping reviewers to get these reviewed
Google internally will sync to 2.8 branch after 2.8 is released, which will be used by internal apps that are not moving to the new tool.
- See Daniel�s presentation on �Modernizing GWT Applications� for the migration story.
GWT 2.8 will be a long-lived maintenance branch
Master will be open for checkins, vetted by GWT Maintainers.
Christian to look into writing a blog post.

Issues List:

Issues moved to github. Downloads moved to Google Compute Engine.
- Daniel plans to write a summary of what changed and send it to contrib.
Thomas: Life of an issue on github
- No direct mapping for closed but not fixed.
- Few other issues
- Thomas: plan to write up a short policy for issues and circulate with SC.