Scala Meeting report, 2010-05-11

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Scala Meeting 2010-05-11

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

* Current work
- fixed some issues with futures
- fixed bugs in the concat algorithm
- fixed bugs in parallel collections
- some additional bugs were also fixed

* Eclipse
- All the information on the Scala IDE for Eclipse has been migrated to
the new website. The releases, for the time being, are still being compiled
from the code in our SVN repository.

* Released 2.8.0.RC2
- Was released on Monday
- Things to fix for RC3: #3395, one bug in specialization, a couple of
build manager bugs, plus recent reports.
- There have been questions concerning HTML support in Scaladoc 2.0; we
will investigate.
- IBM 6 still crashes in scaladoc from time to time. The reason is not
clear at this time, it could be a VM bug or some other issue. We'll try to
find out what is going on.

* Code Review
- New tool is up at codereview.scala-lang.org

* Nightly testing
- Reportedly the Lift project has almost everything set up now to test
all code using our nightlies. The system will be based on Hudson.
- We currently have some scalacheck-based nightly tests. They should no
longer be in the checkin or nightly tests, as binary incompatible changes
breaks them all at once.
- We could ask David to host these additional tests on their
infrastructure, using Scalacheck nightlies.

* Books
- The books section on the website has been updated: there are now 12
books available or planned on Scala and Lift.