Scala Meeting report, 2010-05-18

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Scala Meeting 2010-05-18

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

* Current work
- parallel collections refactoring
- bugfixing on specialization
- .net work
- fixed bug in vector concat
- work on java conversions
- general bugfixing

* 2.8.0 RC3
- some tests are currently disabled; they should be either removed or
re-enabled before the final
- we have not seen feedback from some projects on RC2. We will need to
know all is ok before the final
- some refactoring in the pattern matcher will be included in RC3, as it
is necessary for fixing some crucial bugs
- after RC3 we won't synchronize from trunk anymore. This means that all
fixes which need to go into 2.8.0 will be selectively ported across from
trunk (we will use "svnmerge" for that). After RC3 is out, the new features
targeted for 2.8.1 can go into trunk.
- what should go into RC3:
- fix for #3444
- fix for some build manager bugs
- fixes for a couple of bugs in specialization
- fix for #3304
- if they are ready, fixes for #1697 and #2337
We are aiming for an RC3 release at the end of the week.