Grails Engineering Meeting Notes (10 14 2021)

Date: 10/14/2021

Attendees

Team discussed changes to Groovy that impact the use of transient on methods and how the change impacts Grails transformations and projects
- James: I think when we move to Grails 6 we should suggest that people currently using transient need to swap to an annotation
- Paul: Our preferred approach would be to remove it from the grammar, but there may be other frameworks like Grails that are using it
Looked at the issue filed by David with Grails 5 that appears to be due to Groovy 3.0.7
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-10303
- David: I'm looking further into it and trying to identify the root of the issue
James: Do you know when the GA of Groovy 4 will be released?
- Paul: I imagine that late December is about when it will be released

I think we should update Grails to 3.0.8 or 3.0.9 because there were some improvements in reporting errors that have helped me debug the issue I was working on
- Puneet: I tried to update to Groovy 3.0.9 before Grails 5 GA and experienced errors, so I rolled it back. I think we can update it but there are some issues

I'm planning on a 5.0.1 release early next week to fix some bugs
There is an issue with creating Grails applications with Grails forge. It looks like we can only build Grails 5 or Grails 4 apps
- James: I would suggest that we make it work for Grails 5 first
- Puneet: I'll update it to support Grails 5 and look into what is going on with Grails 4
- James: If we are doing the CLI overhaul this will be part of it
There is a PR to update to Micronaut 3.1, but there are errors that I need to investigate
- James: That may be because we are using Groovy 3.0.9
I'll be updating the Grails documentation around the plugins