Scala Meeting report, 2010-04-27

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Scala Meeting 2010-04-27

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

* Current work
- fixed deadlock when terminating linked actors
- fixes to specialised (scalaz and scalatest work now)
- working on ctors bugfix where specialised
- fixed name-clashes due to erasure
- work on .NET cross-compiler, updating GenMSIL
- refactoring parallel collections for trunk
- work on reflection for Scala
- fixed erasure bug, fixed issues with named arguments
- general bugfixing

* 2.8 RC2
- Most of the bugs that concern us are fixed.
- There is still one bug involving raw types from David that we still
don't have info on. Probably #3349 - once we fix that, we can announce the
of release RC2. Martin and Adriaan will take a look. If it's fixed today,
RC2 is on Friday.
- We can point to a certain nightly and say that it will become an RC in
3-4 days. In general, we will give people 3 days notice before we release
an RC1, so that they can test their tools and libraries. Within these 3
days we will only fix critical issues, not introduce new features nor fix
minor bugs.
- We discussed having RCs for RCs, which we ship to 3rd party tools
maintainers, but we won't do this, as it could introduce misunderstandings.
We will simply firmly choose a nightly that should be used for tests of 3rd
party tools before an RC comes out.

* GSoC
Application process is finished - we have 7 students working on the
following projects:
- scalable remote actors, NIO
- Lift and sbt template engine
- development in Emacs - ENSIME
- additional features to Scala Eclipse IDE
- hardware accelerated 2d graphics - use of shader DSL
- adding Linq awareness
- collaborative wiki for ScalaDoc
We will write about our progress and results, and create a story for the
website.

Officially coding starts May 24, midterm evaluation is July 12th, the
summer of code finishes in 20th August.