Scala Meeting report, 2009-12-15

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Report from the Scala Core Team meeting, 2009-12-15:

People attending the meeting: Martin, Iulian, Eugene, Alex, Hubert, Tiark,
Gilles, Toni, Adriaan, Lukas, Philipp.

* Current work:
- running benchmarks
- work on ikvm-generated compiler, syntax highlighting and scala
projects in Visual Studio
- analyzing concat-performance on vectors (worst/average case)
- Scaladoc: profiling, optimizations
- exceptions tracking
- deprecation now integrates with java
- work on the java 1.6 target
- work on the build manager
- documentation of the reflection library

* 2.8.x
- Miles can't be reached by phone today.
- Eclipse plugin is progressing well, but slower than expected.
- The next RC should be optimized.
- Question: should we release before Christmas or wait for eclipse?
- there are other IDEs
- people are going to play with it over the holidays
- there still has to be an eclipse IDE for the release
- IDE problems
- main problem now is slowdown in auto-completion
- errors in presentation compiler remain even if the build compiler
succeeds
- Other problem: specs
- hindered by bug #2733
- RC release this week.

* Deprecation
- Jorge Oritz proposes more parameters for the @deprecated annotation,
like so:
@deprecated(sinceVersion="2.8.0", removedAfter="2.9.0",
insteadUse="method bar")
see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.internals/2054
- Martin propses: add `sinceVersion` as optional.

* Reviews
- The script creates a new review request for every commit. when "user"
commits something to trunk:
- if the message contains "review by reviewer", the submitter is
"user" and the reviewer is "reviewer"
- if the message contains "no review" or "without review", the
submitter is "no-review-required". these commits can be viewed here:
https://chara2.epfl.ch/users/no-review-required
- otherwise, the submitter is "user" and the reviewer is "unknown".
these review requests show up in the user's "outgoing reviews"
- Policy
- when "no review"?
- how to find a reviewer?
- how detailed should reviews be?

* Documenting the collection library
- There will be a SID on how Scaladoc 2 works, with the already updated
doc as examples