Scala Meeting report, 2010-04-13

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Scala Meeting 2010-04-13

People attending the meeting: Tiark, Phil, Martin, Alex, Donna, Hubert,
Adriaan, Miguel, Philipp, Ingo, Toni, Gilles, Iulian, Lukas.

* Current work

- Tweak and fixes to Scaladoc
- Non-null checking
- Work on Scala .net compiler
- Cleanups in actors
- Specialisation
- Fixing bugs, and documentation

* 2.8 release candidate
- Specialisation is not working right now, and it is not clear how much
work is needed for it to work --- fixes to current problems tend to break
other things. We should aim to have all ready by Wednesday morning
- Partest is causing problems: it needs to be hardened again to catch
everything for each test, and never, ever die silently which is a huge problem.
- Apparently, specialisation problems only occur in files that contain
specialise attributes: as such, it seems we do not have a regression. That
does not seem to be a showstopper for an RC.
- Scaladoc: the size is now 100MB, but other size reductions are much
harder to get. With comment and signature recycling, we can reduce 25-35MB,
but at a considerable cost. For the time being, Scaladoc is good enough to ship
- No other blockers reported.