Scala Meeting report, 2010-04-20

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Scala Meeting 2010-04-20

People attending the meeting: Lukas, Martin, Gilles, Philipp, Iulian,
Tiark, Ingo, Alex, Hubert, Phil, Donna, Miguel, Adriaan, Toni. Special
guests: Pedro Furlanetto, Josh Suereth, Nathan Bronson, Mushtaq Ahmed.

* Current work

- non-null verification
- scaladoc tweaks, fixed many scaladoc bugs
- work on reflection
- work on specialization
- general bugfixing

* Scala 2.8
- RC1 has problems with specializations. Should be fixed in a few days,
then we will have a RC2 release. Will test building other Scala projects
first (e.g., ScalaTest).
- Testing our release: we probably should build Lift, ScalaTest, maybe
others. Josh will help us setting up a hudson job for building Lift and its
dependencies.
- Possibly give a date before which the final won't be shipped (so that
people have time to test out an RC without crazy hack sessions).
- partest still has issues; this needs to be fixed before next RC process.

* Specialized methods
- There is a new scheme for typing specialized methods, having to do with
not always typechecking erased types then re-typechecking with
specialization. The new scheme avoids compiler exceptions when, under
erasure, types would have worked out anyway.

* ScalaDays
- We will have a meeting to consolidate the notes we took during the
community discussion session.
- next Scala Days: LinkedIn and Stanford are interested in helping with
organization, but details are still unclear.