17 June 2015

Agenda:

• 2.8 and follow-up
• Issues list

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.