17 June 2015

Agenda:

2.8 and follow-up:

See meet-up vidoes for details.
GWT 2.8: 90% done. mainly waiting for Interop to finish
- Christian: waiting for jsinterop bug fixes
- GSS migration done for all of Google apps
  - Fixed a few small bugs
  - External folks can use a tool to convert CSS files to GSS: need to finish up this tool.
- Java8 emulation patches - need to get these in
  - Bhaskar to ping reviewers to get these reviewed
Google internally will sync to 2.8 branch after 2.8 is released, which will be used by internal apps that are not moving to the new tool.
- See Daniel’s presentation on ‘Modernizing GWT Applications’ for the migration story.
GWT 2.8 will be a long-lived maintenance branch
Master will be open for checkins, vetted by GWT Maintainers.
Christian to look into writing a blog post.

Issues List:

Issues moved to github. Downloads moved to Google Compute Engine.
- Daniel plans to write a summary of what changed and send it to contrib.
Thomas: Life of an issue on github
- No direct mapping for closed but not fixed.
- Few other issues
- Thomas: plan to write up a short policy for issues and circulate with SC.