Grails Engineering Meeting Notes (03 11 2021)

Date: 03/11/2021

Attendees

• Puneet Behl
• James Kleeh
• Zachary Klein
• Jason Schindler

Agenda

• Bintray Migration Status
• Current Development Activities
• Open Discussion

Bintray Migration Status

Puneet

• Have a draft of a blog for the plugin author blog post and shared with Jason
  • Jason: I will take a look at that today
  • Puneet: I will send it to the rest of the meeting too
  • James: I see you are using your GitHub account for the group ID. Is there a process for reserving that?
  • Puneet: You can use your GitHub account. If you have a domain you can use that as well
• I also created some Wiki pages on Grails core where I am tracking the current state of the Bintray migration
• For most of the common projects, I have already migrated them to GitHub actions and have them publishing to Maven central
• For the rest of these, I will do the update the next time they are migrated
  • James: Maybe it would be good to tag the ones that aren't updated so that it can be seen that the build process needs to be updated
  • Puneet: I think maybe an issue would be better to track it
  • James: Yeah you could create an issue and then assign that issue to a board
• I had a quick discussion with Zak about Grails Plugin Portal
  • Zak: The idea that we have is to have a GitHub hosted JSON file
  • Zak: The problem we are thinking through, is that right now there is nothing pointing us to something that would give us updates to the data
  • Puneet: For updating automatically from GitHub, GitHub doesn't return a release for items that do not have a GitHub release. Just doing a tag isn't enough
  • James: I think if someone wants to releases to update automatically, they have an incentive to do a GitHub release.
  • Jason: I think if someone doesn't do the GitHub release to get their releases updated automatically, they can always PR to the JSON file
  • James: I do think we should include checking Maven Central. I think just checking Maven Central would be a good thing to do
  • Zak: Do we want to only check Maven Central if there aren't GitHub releases?
  • James: I think we should check Maven Central first. It should be the source of truth for these things

• James: I think we need to update our CLI to not include the Grails Gradle Plugin